Przemysław Pawełczyk wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:12:13 -0500 (CDT)
> Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>>> 1) Did one of you heard anything about future merger of the repos:
>>> dag/dries/atrpms/centosplus/extras/karan ?
>>>
>>> Are there any talks going on? What is the state of the
>>> prospective merger? Or is this all merely a hearsay?
>>>
>>> 2) I repeat also my old question "whether someone tried to evaluate
>>> or made feasibility study on transferring NetBSD pkgsrc Package
>>> Manager to CentOS/SL/RH"?
>> What specific product are you talking about ?
> 
> Hi,
> I do not understand your question.
> 
> First of all the topic of merging repos was mentioned by Radu-Cristian
> FOTESCU on His blog and probably by Troy Dawson recently (I can't find
> the post).
> 

I believe I was talking about rpmforge, which I know Dag and Dries are part of, 
and I think Axel is at least talking to.  But I don't ever remember saying 
anything about centosplus and extra's other than I think it might be a good 
idea to make it easy for our users to get at them.

http://rpmforge.net/

> Second, pkgsrc is a collection of compilation and installation recipes.
> Of course binary repository exists as well. All is based on sources.
> pkgsrc is coherent as it's being kept together in one "chunk".
> 
> See the page and devote 3 min of your time to read it, please:
> http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/introduction.html
> 

Thank you for the link.  It sounds like it is different than I was thinking.
But in the end, I haven't heard of anyone trying to merge it into the RedHat 
based distro's.

Troy

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