On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:01 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
We are only talking about CentOS Special Interest Groups and CentOS Variants, not all 3rd Party repositories. And we can't host anything that is encumbered (IP restrictions like MP3, not a license that allows for distribution, etc).
I'd give a lot of credit for the popularity of Ubuntu to their more sane handling of 3rd party packages. Even the ones they don't host directly are generally available from a repository that is easily enabled (without hunting for it, or guessing which ones will break your system), and generally coordinated to avoid conflicts. Maybe some only-slightly associated site could host the repo-release rpms for one or more repositories that are able to host media players, etc. and that will try to avoid conflicts with each other.