Re: [CentOS] Re: mplayer repository for CentOS

On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 00:58, Dag Wieers wrote:

Bryan, that's more a apt/yum issue than it is a repository issue. If you think repository maintainers should divide their repository in all possible permutations of what people might want (and what cross-requirements exist between these repositories), you have not maintained a big repository.

Do any of the yum-like tools have the ability to work at the src rpm level in addition to the binary ones? That is, could you maintain a a single repository of extra packages that work with a range of distributions/versions/libraries and have a tool automatically build them on the requesting system if a matching binary rpm didn't already exist?