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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
