Up2date replacement

[John Summerfied]

Don Springall wrote:

>>
>> Such a tool, or such information that the tool uses to get the list of
>> repos must live outside the scope of Fedora.  Fedora tools/content
>> cannot link to, point to, or otherwise enable the use of repositories
>> that may include illegal or ForbiddenItems content.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jesse Keating RHCE      (http://geek.j2solutions.net)
> 
> 
> Anyone can add repo's to yum now in /etc/yum.repos.d. A lot of people do 
> this to add missing codecs from alternate repositories to play things 
> like MP3 files.  Last I heard Fedora was supporting Yum. They just don't 
> want to be party to providing links to sites that may have legal 
> entanglements themselves. They leave that up to the users of yum. How 
> would a tool like this be any different ?

Any geek can add repos. If we are trying to create Linux for the Masses, 
we need to make sure its use isn't too demanding of The Masses. My boss 
could make a sensible choice between Perth and Tehran, but finding the 
relevant files so as to attack them with Vim or Vigor would escape him.



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