[ptx] missing mail from PTX?

[JD Smith]

On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 18:03 +0000, Bruno Postle wrote:
> On Thu 30-Dec-2004 at 10:52 -0700, Rob Park wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:29:57 +0000, Bruno Postle <bruno at postle.net> wrote:
> 
> [snip fedora 3rd party repositories]
> 
> > > Unfortunately the people who manage fedora.us seem to believe
> > > that there Should Be Only One channel for extras.
> > 
> > What do you mean by this?
> 
> Fedora.us seem to want to recreate debian (which would be fine, but
> debian already exists):
> 
>   http://www.fedora.us/wiki/RepositoryMixingProblems
> 
> ..hugin would never be accepted into fedora.us since it is 'beta' or
> 'pre'.

Dag comments lucidly on this problem as well:

http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#D

Also note that Fedora project just announced that fedora.us is
officially being turned into Fedora Extras:

        The Fedora Project is officially launching Fedora Pre-Extras, to work
        alongside Fedora Core 3 for i386 and x86_64 based platforms.
        
        What is Pre-Extras?
        It is our way of showing you that we've been working hard, as many
        packages have been built, and are ready for distribution. 
        
        We are working very hard to make the build system work well, and the
        infrastructure for this is almost ready, it just has a few kinks that we
        are ironing out. As a measure of good faith, CVS for both Core and
        Extras has already been opened.
        
        While waiting for Extras to officially launch, use Pre-Extras today!
        
        Where did all these packages come from?
        These were packages from the now-merged Fedora.us repository as well as
        freshrpms.net repository. So they maintain the same high quality
        standards that was imposed previously.
        
Once this becomes standard, I suspect all the third-party repositories
will have to over-haul their system for compatibility with both Core and
Extras.  Right now, you either pick fedora.us and livna, or DAG,
FreshRPMS, Dries, NewRPMS, ... (the set soon to become "RPMforge").

JD