newbie guide to asterisk on f11?

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 15:12 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:16 -0400 (EDT)
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> >   is this making any sense?
> 
> Definitely. However, I have gotten into the habit after
> encountering the same sort of thing many times of using
> yum search or a gui tool like yumex to search for all
> things asterisk (or whatever I'm interested in) and
> I just install all packages that seem vaguely related
> in the descriptions :-).
> 
> Usually makes for less surprise.
> 
> I notice one thing that some packages do is create a
> dummy package with the base name of the product and
> make it depend on all the other packages, but I've
> never been able to deduce the rules for that - I suspect
> personal whim of the packagers.

This is called a metapackage, and I've been told they're frowned on in
Fedora. I've no idea why, they're extensively used in Mandriva and I
always found them invaluable.

Fedora does use the concept of package groups quite extensively in
similar ways, and yum makes it easy to install a complete 'group' of
packages. yum grouplist doesn't seem to show any kind of Asterisk group,
though. :\
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