Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
That brought me to the question: what are our plans for a
webinterface
for packages? We had repoview in the past for Core and Extras, but that
was dropped with the merge (likely due to "not much time, not
critical/not important enough). Will we get it back? Or will Fedora just
ignore the issue and leave that service to external groups? Or will the
package database help somewhat in this regard?
To avoid misunderstandings, I want to point out that repowatch is NOT
meant to be a replacement for repoview. In fact it is even prepared to
link directly into a repoview's package description. Unfortunately there
are none yet for FC7. :)
My primary goal for repowatch was to watch several repositories
simultaneously, and give reports about packages that have been recently
added or removed from a repository. A nice side effect is the
possibility to online search for packages.
The drawback of repowatch is that it requires a web server and a
database, while the static pages of repoview can be used anywhere, even
on a DVD.
Best Regards
--
Richard Körber