Re: [gtkmm] gtkmm RPMs for Fedora Core 2; peless, please try it out.

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 12:04 -0400, Julian Missig wrote:
> On 3 Jun, 2004, at 8:26, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 07:53 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 02:49 -0700, Denis Leroy wrote:
> >>>> For crying out loud, where?
> >>>
> >>> Why aren't you asking Fedora about Fedora RPMs?
> >>
> >> Because we all know that they don't have them.
> >
> > 1. They do have RPMs for gtkmm 2.2. They might be in fedora.us rather
> > than fedora.redhat.com, but that's how Fedora works at the moment.
> > 2. If you don't ask them, then they'll never know that you want them.
> > Why must I ask them on your behalf?
> 
> Fedora.us is NOT "official" fedora. Fedora.us's gtkmm RPMs are just as 
> official as those in freshrpms. It's a repository just like any "third 
> party" Debian repository.

That's not how I understand the situation. I understand that fedora is a
merger of the redhat linux project and fedora.us. They are not properly
merged yet, but I think that fedora.us is far more official than any
other set of rpms. But fedora are still the people to talk to.
 
>  In other words, either way you have to add 
> new sources for yum to even find them. As long as people add a 
> repository and install the RPMs from that, there's little chance of 
> them mixing and matching incorrect *mm RPMs. But yes, it would be nice 
> if some day we could really get it in Fedora.
> 
> Julian
> 
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