On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, houghi wrote:

> > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:47:34PM +0200, Christoph Thiel wrote:
> > > > Well, we never had metadata/repodata for the mozilla project dirs, 
> > > > but it actually makes sense to change this in my opinion.
> > > 
> > > Well, time to make a Yum resources page. Or just a sources page (or 
> > > do we need to call it repositories?)
> > 
> > I guess it's something for the 
> > http://www.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories page, or 
> > a more generic "Package repositories for SUSE Linux" page. 
> > (metadata/repodata/yum (however you like to call them) repos are 
> > supported by the latests YaST, that's in 10.0).
> 
> I am thinking about how to do the fact that it is on mirrors and might 
> be different on each one. This is what stpped me from adding the 
> 'normal' sources in a better way.

As long as we create the metadata for the mozilla project tree (which 
hopefully will happen soon), the metadata will be the same on every 
mirror.


> I am still not happy with the word "repositories" and am thinking of a 
> page: YaST_sources (To be sure, is it Yast, YaST or YAST?) What are your 
> opnions on the word "repositories"? The reason I like "Source" better is 
> because it is used in Yast and will be less confusing for the beginner 
> if only one word is used.

Actually repository is the correct word for YaST "sources". Calling them 
sources is a bit ambiguous.

Quoting 
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=repository

  - a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored 

I guess that's the perfect description for the thing we are talking about 
;)


Regards
        Christoph

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