On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 13:48 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday, March 24, 2011 01:01:11 pm Dag Wieers wrote: > > Well, you had plenty, RPMforge, FreshRPMS, ATrpms, NewRPMS, PlanetCCMA, > > and many many more. That was before something like Fedora Extras existed. > > It was even before Fedora the distribution existed; you of course had the fedora.us repository..... > > But I distinctly remember using a mix of the above with Red Hat Linux 9, and prior, using apt-rpm (and by hand before apt-rpm existed), before Seth tackled the problem yum solved really well. The first release of yum was used for rhl 7.1/.2/.3 Just to get things into proper perspective. -sv