Re: [WBEL-devel] WBEL4 progress update

bishop <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Mar 2005 04:44:18 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.whitebox.devel
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John Morris wrote:

> However I have been pondering something for WBEL4.  It's version of yum
> is from FC3 and supports /etc/yum.repos.d.  Instead of providing
> commented out entries for various repos, would it be better to provide
> rpm packages that could be installed to install support for them?  What
> are other distros doing in this regard and what naming conventions
> already exist?  

Oh, it's not worth much, but I'm +1 for this for sure.  It simplifies 
things immensely, from what I've seen in APT land.  Hacking in data 
files is silly.

  - bish