Re: Is there going to be a (FC) 4 directory tree at freshrpms?

Serge de Souza wrote :

> lol, I had apt set up for FC4, I like to look at the web page as it is a 
> nice way to be aware of new packages that I have never installed like 
> when xdesktopwaves was added (BTW where is it :) may be a bit of a pb 
> given all the assembly code in there, I have not tried to recompile it).

Hmmm, I thought xdesktopwaves was in Extras. If there are any packages
I've missed (i.e. that were in freshrpms for FC3 and now aren't either in
freshrpms or Extras), then please let me know.

> As I did not see the page I was a bit worried that freshrpms had given 
> up on providing the wonderful "Simple and Clean" rpms. Especially given 
> that dag is re-using a lot of the spec files.

It's not really "re-using", it's sharing the burden and cooperating :-) We
often update or fix some of the other's packages, which makes the whole
process more efficient since be build all our packages from the same spec
files. Just think as freshrpms as a small and more focused subset of
packages as what rpmforge aims to be.

> One thing I miss is the apt package (haven't quite migrated to yum yet). 
> The one from extras is not configured, am currently using dag's and do 
> understand the problem of providing an RPM already present in extras :(

Yeah, I understand it's a bit of a problem. But most users should really
switch to yum, as it now has all the features one expects for simple
operations (and more), and from my POV only "lacks" really specific
features compared to apt (pinning, mostly).

Matthias

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