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

[Julian Missig <julian jabber org>]

On 3 Jun, 2004, at 15:02, Murray Cumming wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 12:04 -0400, Julian Missig wrote:
> > 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.

Fedora Core is a merger of the Red Hat Linux Project and fedora.us, 
Yes. However, it is not the Official Fedora Core repository (and 
mirrors) which have gtkmm. Fedora.us hosts BOTH the Official Fedora 
Core repository and its own "third-pary" repository of "add-on" RPMs. 
Guess where you'll find gtkmm. The fedora.us add-on repository is no 
more official than freshrpms.

I don't disagree that the Fedora people are the appropriate ones to 
talk to, I've done so on several occasions. Quite a few of them are 
still of the opinion that as a general rule they don't like to include 
libraries if they're not including an app which depends on them. We 
need to keep pushing them to get gtkmm including in the Official 
repository.

My whole point, though, was that the freshrpms versions of gtkmm are no 
"worse" or "better" than what's available in fedora.us -- you have to 
/add the additional repository/ to your sources list either way. You 
should be familiar with the concept from Debian--it's the same thing...

Julian