FYI: Fedora Extras available

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, David Bandel wrote:
> 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).

That's just in the fedora-extras repository.

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

Yes:
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/tcpick/

> packages:
>
> Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available.
> Information about 17457 package(s) was updated.
>
> Now if I added unstable and experimental ...

That's nice.  I didn't realize we were getting into distro wars again.

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