FYI: Fedora Extras available

[David Bandel]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:58:13 +0100, Klaus-Peter Schrage
<kpschrage at gmx.de> wrote:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-February/msg00009.html
> "Fedora Extras are sets of packages that augment Fedora Core but do not
> replace Fedora Core component packages. These packages, like all packages
> that are part of The Fedora Project, must conform to the legal
> requirements of the project and conform to the Fedora Extras policies.
> 
> Examples of packages currently available in Fedora Extras include:
>         bittorrent cfengine gqview jikes libsigc++ openslp rxvt sqlite
>         starfighter zope
> with a total of over 500 packages available!"

I can hardly contain my excitement.  Wow, over 500 packages extra (501
is over 500).

Debian stable/testing has all the above in Fedora plus bittornado,
rxvt-beta, much more.  Does Fedora have tcpick?  Let's see how many
packages:

Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available.
Information about 17457 package(s) was updated.

Now if I added unstable and experimental ...

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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