The maven and tomcat and ruby193 packages look nice. Organized access to those could save me a lot if local setup work.
Nico Kadel-Garcia Email: nka...@gmail.com Sent from iPhone > On Jul 11, 2014, at 8:24, Jonathan Perkin <jper...@joyent.com> wrote: > > * On 2014-07-11 at 12:58 BST, James M. Pulver wrote: > >> The question I'm asking is... "Why?" ... What does this get me that >> EPEL etc don't? Are these especially obscure packages? I mean, "zip" >> is in SL repo. "xpdf" is in EPEL... Wordnet is in SL repo etc. .. > > Hi James, > > For me it was easy enough to provide these packages, as we already do > bulk builds for a number of other operating systems. We provide > CentOS 6.5 in our cloud, so it was very little effort to set up. > > They aren't meant to replace existing repositories, nor meant to be > used instead of continuing to develop EPEL etc. I'm just offering > them in case they provide packages people need which aren't currently > available in the native repositories. > > Whilst there are a lot of obscure packages included, it is also the > primary package manager for a number of operating systems, and so > there is by necessity a lot of up-to-date software provided too. > > If it turns out that there is too much overlap and there isn't any > benefit, that's fine. I just thought I'd offer them up and see what > interest there is, and can then decide if it's worth continuing. > > Regards, > > -- > Jonathan Perkin - Joyent, Inc. - www.joyent.com