[WBEL-devel] ncurses4

[donavan nelson]

If someone steps up to do the work.  I plan to maintain a few packages (of
personal interest), until they get into the main RHEL.  I can certainly find a
place on whiteboxlinux.net to accommodate storage and information for these
packages.  Someone just has to do the leg work or find, building and
maintaining the packages of interest to them.  I suspect that there are going
to be several people with situations like yours.

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On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 16:04:15 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote
> I would also think that a main purpose of WBEL is to stay as close as
> possible to RHEL as far as packages go ... so that when security issues
> arise and RedHat deploys errata SRPMS for RHEL we can deploy them in 
> a timely manner.
> 
> I guess if someone wants to maintain official packages that are older
> 
> (on a separate disk) that would be OK, but then that will also have 
> to be maintained and fixed for errata ... and RedHat probably won't release
> any fixes for older packages.  So does WBEL have the capability to
> include and maintain errata for packages that are not supported by RHEL?
> 
> -Johnny Hughes
> 
> On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 15:36, donavan nelson wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 13:45:47 -0500 (EST), John A. Tamplin wrote
> > > If possible, I would like to suggest ncurses4 from the fedora 
> > > distribution be included in WBEL and available under the 
> > > compatibility libraries section of the install as an optional 
> > > package.  I have a number of old commercial applications that need it.
> > 
> > While I generally see this as a good idea, this pushes the intended purpose of
> > WBEL.  I do however believe this would be more suited to an "Extras" type of
> > disk.  I'm thinking that WBEL should be as close to the RHEL core as possible.
> > 
> > Perhaps John will chime in here and offer his thoughts as well (I know several
> > others will).
> 
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