"Bill Rugolsky Jr." wrote:
> The interview with Bero the other day alluded to him working on
> contrib; does anyone have any information about this, because if it is
> done right, one could move fairly freely back and forth between
> RedHat-packaged vs. contrib vs. built from a foreign distro SRPM, and this
> would not cause the headaches that it does now. The major part of the
> problem is handling dependencies, and this is a complex problem, but is
> mostly a rat's nest when it affects non-leaf packages in the dependency
> tree, which really can only be provided by RedHat or a conscientious
> contributor. Alas, really needs to be cooperation in canonical naming
> of resources so that the RPM RDF files from rpmfind.net realize their
> potential.
If you haven't already seen it, look for Bero's response in this
thread. He gives the correct address for his contrib area.
rickf
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