Sub-Repo for Yum and Smart

Hi:

Starting a new thread on this based on "dag, newrpms, kde-redhat, 
jpackage for FC1 (was: Dag FC1 repo for newer yum version)" sent 
earlier this month.

I've been reworking PyVault with a new base standard: CentOS 3/4 and FC 
3/4.  Due to the target being developers and bleeding edge folks for 
the FC line, I dropped 1/2.  Also, I have a target for those running 
servers, thus, CentOS.

In my reworking, I dropped support for Apt.  And, as the repos move 
forward, I would encourage all to do the same.  Especially since smart 
has matured enough and it reuses md from other sources (ie xml-md).

I am willing to contribute to a micro-repo dedicated to providing a 
common rpm, yum, and smart setup for at least the distros I mentioned 
above.  I'd also be willing to not continue the yum20 line at all; but, 
I see that the political strings would be difficult to pull.

I've just barely completed work on getting yum 2.4.0 compiled and 
running for the above.  It also runs under python 2.4.1 on all 
platforms.  I've also distilled the python component out of RPM:

http://symbiont.mn.sabren.com/rpm-python/

And it works great.  My next revision will strip out the configure 
madness and focus totally on API defines rather than config.h. This 
release also can compile under the different rpms distributed with the 
above. So, it is possible to keep the vendor-supplied rpm.

Anyway, I started working on libxml2 stuff and thought, I should take 
this from atrpms.  Then, I looked at repo-coord and thought maybe we 
should startup this discussion...

Thoughts?

-- 
-jeff