How would you shrink Fedora? [LWN.net]

How would you shrink Fedora?

Posted Feb 24, 2005 18:04 UTC (Thu) by Tet (subscriber, #5433)
In reply to: How would you shrink Fedora? by yodermk
Parent article: How would you shrink Fedora?

it's well behind even AbiWord/Gnumeric

I think the "even" is a little unwarranted there, particularly wrt Gnumeric, which is by far the best open source spreadsheet available. Admittedly Abiword is a little behind OO.o, but it's orders of magnitude faster, and catching up fast in terms of features.

And something that really should be added: Scribus.

Agreed completely. That said, it's already there in Fedora Extras, but there does need to be some evangelism to encourage more places to mirror Extras. In the UK, you can get it from http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/

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How would you shrink Fedora?

Posted Feb 24, 2005 20:29 UTC (Thu) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803) [Link]

> I think the "even" is a little unwarranted there, particularly wrt Gnumeric

Correct, sorry. I use Gnumeric myself, prefer it to OOo Calc.

Heck, they maybe should have taken out OOo and left Abiword/gnumeric. Although Abiword did crash nastily on me a couple months ago, leaving my file in malformed XML that I had to fix by hand!

Looks now like the DID remove Abiword/Gnumeric, which seems like a mistake to me. Oh well.

Regarding Extras, I've never even been able to get YUM to use them correctly. Always get an error...

How would you shrink Fedora?

Posted Feb 25, 2005 5:03 UTC (Fri) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]

What error does yum give you on extras? I use them all the time with yum b/c I have to make sure these things work a little bit. :)

How would you shrink Fedora?

Posted Feb 25, 2005 15:40 UTC (Fri) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803) [Link]

Setting up Repo: extras
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: extras
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from extras: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

And this is from a yum.conf that I took right out of ... uh, now I forget where! But it supposedly works for others.

How would you shrink Fedora?

Posted Feb 25, 2005 15:43 UTC (Fri) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]

Post the repository section for the extras set you have. I bet it's not right.
or better yet - ask about this on fedora-extras-list.