Up2date replacement

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 12:00 -0700, Don Springall wrote:
> >From: Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net>
> >Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases 
> ><fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> >To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> >Subject: Re: Up2date replacement
> >Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:24:24 -0800
> >
> >On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 10:19 -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > >
> > > It would be nice if there were some repository config manager, which
> > > pulled a master "authoritative" list from somewhere and let you select
> > > repositories via ncurses/x11/etc. The directory would list the 
> >repository
> > > name, its intended function, its geographic location and link speeds,
> > > etc. to make sorting out the whole mess a bit easier.
> > >
> > > I have thought about writing such a beast and calling it "yuk" to
> > > complement "yum" :)
> >
> >Such a tool, or such information that the tool uses to get the list of
> >repos must live outside the scope of Fedora.  Fedora tools/content
> >cannot link to, point to, or otherwise enable the use of repositories
> >that may include illegal or ForbiddenItems content.
> >
> >--
> >Jesse Keating RHCE      (http://geek.j2solutions.net)
> 
> Anyone can add repo's to yum now in /etc/yum.repos.d. A lot of people do 
> this to add missing codecs from alternate repositories to play things like 
> MP3 files.  Last I heard Fedora was supporting Yum. They just don't want to 
> be party to providing links to sites that may have legal entanglements 
> themselves. They leave that up to the users of yum. How would a tool like 
> this be any different ?

if you package and include that list of repos in a package provided from
fedora core/extras then it is contributory infringement

-sv