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Great - but what are they ?

Great - but what are they ?

Posted Feb 4, 2005 13:58 UTC (Fri) by addw (guest, #1771)
Parent article: Fedora Extras available for download

It is a shame that, having gone to all that effort, they don't make it usable for people. I took a quick look to see if there was interesting, I was presented with a list of package names - some of which I knew, others I didn't.

Is it too much to ask for a simple index ? Even a one line description of what each one does would make this much more usable. I have been in this game for a long time and I find it difficult, so what does the intelligent novice think ?

Summary: usual FLOSS failing of poor usability.


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Great - but what are they ?

Posted Feb 4, 2005 18:01 UTC (Fri) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]

you can get most of this information via yum:

if you have a stock install of fc3:
you add the extras repo to your /etc/yum.repo.d dir then run:

yum --disablerepo=base --disablerepo=updates-released info \*

That will give you a nice summary of all the packages in ONLY the extras repository.

I'd recommend outputting that to a file, though.

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