A good test of the F9pre-release would be to have livna and friends ready

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:04:54 +0200, Antonio M wrote:

> > > > And not having an unified extra repo might cause many desktop users to
> > > > migrate elsewhere, especially for multimedia and graphic drivers.
> > > > And generally multimedia management has to be improved, I bet if a
> > > > newcomer might be happy in setting up his system and how long does it
> > > > take to have a system properly working (for multimedia)?

That paragraph above is an attempt at trying to increase the pressure
on those who work on rpmfusion and the packages.

> I am not threatening anybody, as Michael is saying: what I am saying
> that the effort to unify external repo is not clear, even if you look
> to the link that you suggest in rpmfusion I don't see much activity, I
> understand that they should be ready for F9 launch.
> At the moment the only working repo for F9 is livna, isn't it?
> 
> Sorry if I created any misunderstanding ....

Livna could be renamed, the additional packages imported into svn,
but with that the goals aren't reached, since e.g. the buildsys is
not fully automatic for all packagers.


Btw, the second initiative is here:
http://rpmrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/rpmrepo-devel