[WBEL-users] No complete custom & Joe missing from packaged RPMs

William Hooper whooperhsd2@earthlink.net
Fri, 6 Feb 2004 17:46:40 -0500 (EST)


Bill Davidsen said:
>
> Any interest in a "contrib" CD for stuff many people want but is not in
> RHEL? I am thinking common stuff like 'joe' which used to be there,
> perhaps some mp3 stuff depending on legal issues, security stuff, etc.
> All with rpms built to drop into WBEL.

Well, Dag Wieer's already has an add-on repo for RHEL:
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/

There has been interest expressed on this list about having third party
packages.  I can't remember if anyone has stepped forward with the space
and bandwidth yet.  Having stuff with "legal issues" might limit a
person's desire to host it.

-- 
William Hooper