On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 11:52 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: > >> (flex and make come to mind, there were a few others) > > Yes!!! > > Latest autotools, flex / bison, static packages for unsatisfiable > dependencies such as curl, qt etc. All of this has no place in the > standard base repository. > >> It could be: >> >> >> What do people think ? > > From the aestetical point of view what bothers be is that rf is just 2 > characters, while the rest is 3 characters long :-) But on the upside, you shouldn't see those on "normal" systems :-) Which reminds me that I also did the proposal of creating an "extras" repository, so: .rf. rpmforge stable (additional packages) .rfb. rpmforge buildtools (buildtools, not required) .rft. rpmforge testing (test stuff, no guarantee) .rfx. rpmforge extras (packages replacing base) Not sure if rfx/extras is a good name for that repository. If we decide to do this, I guess we should start identifying those packages that replace base, or require packages that replace base. -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]