On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Fernando Nasser <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:fnasser@redhat.com" target="_blank">fnasser@redhat.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
What is the difficult on adding a file to yum.repo.d ?<br>
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It is designed for that.  Each initial page for an aditional repo would<br>
have instructions on how to activate it and provide a repo file to copy from.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The difficulty is that, currently, in Fedora and indeed most other modern distributions, if I want to install a piece of software, I don&#39;t want to have to Google the software, find the Fedora repository for that software, add the repo file, and then use yum to install it. I want to be able to use yum to install the software directly. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Of course if this fails I&#39;ll look around on the internet for unofficial RPMs or repositories, but the point is that it&#39;s a huge inconvenience to the user to make them have to do this when, at present, they don&#39;t need to.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It&#39;s not a difficulty so much as a bad or annoying design decision from an end-user standpoint.</div></div>