On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Connie Sieh wrote:

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> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Przemys?aw Pawe?czyk wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> 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 Manage=
> r to
>> CentOS/SL/RH"?
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> What specific product are you talking about ?

If you are talking about a product that rebuilds packages from source then 
the audience that these releases are intended for do not need to rebuild 
source.  These users expect all the packages to be built already.

So no we have not looked at it and will not as it is not a requirement of 
our users.

-Connie Sieh

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> SL 3.0.x and 4.x both have apt for rpms.  But apt does not do well wi=
> th=20
> multiarch releases and it is not maintained as much as it used to be =
> so we=20
> took it out for SL 5.
>
> -Connie Sieh
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>> Regards,
>> pp
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