[CentOS] centosplus and contrib rpms

Karanbir Singh

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Tue May 17 10:01:15 UTC 2005


Farkas Levente wrote:
> yes, i read it, but if soemone missed that, than it'd be useful in the
> mirror site too. on the other side what's the difference wbetween addon
> and extras?
> 

Addons' are packages that were required to build the distro and/or
packages output from the build process, but not a part of the
Distribution itself.

Extras are external, non distribution related packages ( eg. XFCE for
CentOS4 is not a part of the distribution, but made available via the
Extras repository for people who might want it )

I hope this clear up things.

- KB

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