Fedora's way forward

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Tue Mar 28 17:17:33 UTC 2006


Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net>:
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 11:50 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Nah, this part's easy.  Lame brings up a yum repository, with mirrors, 
> > all legal and proper.  Fedora carries it in the stock yum.repos.d files.  
> > Post-installation instructions say "push this button to collect MP3
> > support".
> 
> Ah, but then it isn't IN Fedora at all.  Fedora is just configured to be
> able to obtain it.  Something different.

Yes.  This is where yum helps us win big.  The consumer doesn't care
if his overhead is as low as pushing a button.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>




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