On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/24/2011 10:44 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
I never quite understood why that wasn't designed in from the start.
Because the yellowdog updater-modified developers didn't have that lofty of a goal in mind from the start?
I think it was the opposite - that they had the lofty goal of having all repositories coordinated even though that is clearly impossible unless you can dictate a jailed iphone-like world.
There weren't really "external" repositories when yum came out. I won't speak for Seth, but in my opinion, the goal of yum was "help end RPM dep hell". And thankfully it did (combined with lots of packaging improvements in rh/fedora, etc.).
Well, you had plenty, RPMforge, FreshRPMS, ATrpms, NewRPMS, PlanetCCMA, and many many more. That was before something like Fedora Extras existed.