On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 23:52 +0000, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
Hi,
> In order to pull in packagers like those maintaining Dries, Dag Weirs,
> freshrpms, and others, and in order to assure Fedora users that their
> packages would work instead of saying, "if you don't use official
> packages, you're on your own," has there been any conversation on
> taking an example from Debian and having a non-free repository? It
> would also free up the packagers who spend so much time duplicating
> each other's packages in order to ensure compatibility. I know there
> are issues with their ffmpeg and mp3 codecs, but could these issues be
> solved simply by designating their repositories as non-free? I think
> it would greatly enhance the Fedora experience, IMHO as a loyal FC
> user since Yarrow.
Personally, I'd love to see everything under one roof or failing that,
have freshrpms and livna have the equivalent of a rawhide build.
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/development/
These are not the packages you are looking for...
josh