[CentOS-devel] Why not a fusion between CentOS and SL?

[Lamar Owen]

On Thursday, March 24, 2011 01:01:11 pm Dag Wieers wrote:
> Well, you had plenty, RPMforge, FreshRPMS, ATrpms, NewRPMS, PlanetCCMA, 
> and many many more. That was before something like Fedora Extras existed.

It was even before Fedora the distribution existed; you of course had the fedora.us repository.....

But I distinctly remember using a mix of the above with Red Hat Linux 9, and prior, using apt-rpm (and by hand before apt-rpm existed), before Seth tackled the problem yum solved really well.