On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:19:48 -0800, Jesse wrote:
Extras had significantly fewer packages,
Well, Fedora Extras 6 (x86_64) contained 5129 packages, which is only 300 less
than F11 stable updates.
http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/extras/6/x86_64...
no multilib,
Just want to correct you here as "no multilib" isn't true. It implemented
a whitelist, a blacklist and a multiarch depsolver, but it was decided to
turn on full *-devel multiarch pushing no earlier than during Fedora 7
development. Previously (up to and including Fedora Extras 6), only some
packages (like "wine") were pulled in via the whitelist.
no deltarpms, no update metadata,
These two features predate the Fedora Extras era. The post-Fedora Extras
pushscripts have been enhanced to create deltarpms
(
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/11/i386/drpms/ )
including basic repo inheritance.
fewer arches
i386, x86_64 and ppc
and was ran on different hardware.
It's an apples vs. oranges comparison anyway.