On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Jeff Sheltren wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at 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. -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]