Fedora's way forward

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Mar 30 21:59:19 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 16:30 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk>:
> > Tell me.. why you don't start a project aiming for better integration of
> > 3rd party repositories outside Fedora Core and Extras? I'm sure it can
> > be as simple as Alan outlined with the user just having to click a link
> > in his web browser and, badebing-badebum, all the stuff is installed.
> > 
> > I encourage you to take this task upon you. I think it would be great!
> 
> Would Fedora carry a script or application intended to make easy access
> to such third-party repositories available, even on the premise that they
> carry proprietary software?
> 
> If the answer is "yes", then I would in fact be willing to work on this.

Well if its generic enough to work for any repository then its a very
much a nice feature to have. Wouldnt it be better to add this capability
to Pirut though?

Rahul




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