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Nico Kadel-Garcia
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> On Jul 11, 2014, at 8:59, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> The maven and tomcat and ruby193 packages look nice. Organized access to those could save me a lot if local setup work.
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> Nico Kadel-Garcia
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>> On Jul 11, 2014, at 8:24, Jonathan Perkin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> * On 2014-07-11 at 12:58 BST, James M. Pulver wrote:
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>>> The question I'm asking is... "Why?" ... What does this get me that
>>> EPEL etc don't? Are these especially obscure packages? I mean, "zip"
>>> is in SL repo. "xpdf" is in EPEL... Wordnet is in SL repo etc. ..
This is what I get for replying while on a train. I lost track, and thought this was the new SL software collections. Forgive me, please!
New repos can be useful indeed. It's hazardous when they conflict or overlap with system tools. Look at the Nvidia installers for good examples of nuttiness!
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