On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 04:11 -0700, Anthony Francis wrote: > Axel Thimm wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:40:32PM +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote: > > > >> Olle E Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > >>> But on the other hand, if people rely on third-party distributions > >>> we might want to set up some kind of peer pressure on the > >>> maintainers - and possibly identify them so we can support them and > >>> speed up their process. > >>> > >> Third-party distributions are very important, and Asterisk has > >> for various reasons done relatively badly there. > >> > >> Fedora still doesn't have Asterisk, but does have CallWeaver. Asterisk > >> isn't even available in the most popular extra repositories, but only > >> in ATrpms, my least favourite of the larger repositories. > >> > > > > It happens to be my favourite thrid party repo though, ;) and indeed > > there is quite some asterisk support happening there. > > [snip]
> Asterisk is fairly easy to build, I don't see why it needs to be in a > repo. IMO For example because you don't have a build environment (gcc, autoconf etc.) on a production box. A repo allows you to build on one box and deploy the RPMs via the repo on the other boxes. Regards, Patrick _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users