On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 01:39:26PM -0700, DJA wrote: > If you've watched FreshRPMs over the life of Fedora, you've noticed > that the number of "Extras" has declined to about half of what it was > with RH9. I imagine part of the reason is because Redhat won't > directly support anything that might contained encumbered IP (e.g. > MPEGn, MP3, GIF, WMP, etc.).
I think FreshRPMs has declined because most of the packages have started making their way into Fedora Extras, which is now more or less an officially sanctioned Red Hat project. I think, though I need to double check, that Matthias Saou of FreshRPMs is a Fedora Extras contributor himself. The Extras repository is enabled by default now in FC-4, which makes things a lot more convenient for users. The stuff Red Hat doesn't support ends up in Livna. So things like xine or the nvidia driver can easily be found there. > Others have mentioned sites which aren't strict clones of Redhat's > repositories, as FreshRPMs seems to be, and which may hold apps not on > Redhat's Officially Supported (or sanctioned) list. -- Chris Grau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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