Some thoughts about yum and repositories

[William Hooper]

Douglas Furlong said:
> There is a slight problem with this, yum install repo-livna-blah blah
> blah would require yum to already have the repo listed.
>
> So what may make MORE sense, is to one repo, where people like
> freshrpm's, livna, dag's et all submit there "repo rpm".

Does this really give any advantages over:

rpm -i http://my.new.repo.com/repo-blah.noarch.rpm

Once you try to go the "one repo" approach you have to take politics into
consideration.  Most of those repos will never go on an "official" list
from Fedora (because of the legal concerns).  And there are already
packaging conflicts with just the three you listed.

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William Hooper