The maven and tomcat and ruby193 packages look nice. Organized access to those could save me a lot if local setup work.

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:
> 
>> 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. ..
> 
> Hi James,
> 
> For me it was easy enough to provide these packages, as we already do
> bulk builds for a number of other operating systems.  We provide
> CentOS 6.5 in our cloud, so it was very little effort to set up.
> 
> They aren't meant to replace existing repositories, nor meant to be
> used instead of continuing to develop EPEL etc.  I'm just offering
> them in case they provide packages people need which aren't currently
> available in the native repositories.
> 
> Whilst there are a lot of obscure packages included, it is also the
> primary package manager for a number of operating systems, and so
> there is by necessity a lot of up-to-date software provided too.
> 
> If it turns out that there is too much overlap and there isn't any
> benefit, that's fine.  I just thought I'd offer them up and see what
> interest there is, and can then decide if it's worth continuing.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com