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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:59:38 +0100
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On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Shawn Thompson wrote:

> Okay, this is a little important, so read carefully:
>
> Andrew Cutler (a person I noticed on Twitter, I had emailed, and
> surprisingly responded) has proposed the formation of a  community
> consortium to help develop a common "meta-distribution" for
> community-based EL products, which could most likely also serve as a
> distribution of its own.

Sorry, I don't quite follow.
This would be a replacement/alternative/rival to CentOS/the Yale
equivalent/SL etc, rather than another epel/rpmforge/dag
ie a base repo or an addon repo ? Or something of both ?

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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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