[Leaplist] RPM Fusion repos now available (merger of Livna and FreshRPMS) ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

> I've already found several packages from Livna and/or
> FreshRPMS are not in RPM Fusion.  Some may be intentional.
> Some may be still coming.

Vernon --

I just checked and cinerella was just built on FreshRPMS
this past Monday (11/3).  At this time, I recommend you
stick with FreshRPMS if you need that package.  It seems
it's one of the packages that have not been moved over to
RPM Fusion.

This could be for several reasons ...

1.  Does not have an active maintainer
2.  Is not packaged to the Fedora guidelines
3.  Has not been tested to Fedora guidelines
4.  Has missing dependencies with #1-3 themselves
5.  Is "in-progress" (for various reasons)

Like Fedora and Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL),
the RPM Fusion (which has both Fedora and EL packages)
has its own requirements for contributions, maintainers,
quality, etc...  DAG and others continue to bark at them.

We'll see if some maintainers accept the changes of this
package.  Until then, FreshRPMS seems to still be updating
its repositories, while moving some packages over.  Livna
has completely switched over, including forcing the download
of its new meta-packages for those using it.

-- Bryan

P.S.  Personal experience:  FreshRPMS has always been
"repo hell" for me, so I've avoided it.  It seems
FreshRPMS has yet to move completely over, only moving
over some packages, so it's probably still mid-conversion.
Livna has _always_ been very _strongly tied to _never_
crossing official Fedora packages, whereas FreshRPMS has
been looser on that detail.  With RPM Fusion, they cannot
any longer, so I'm sure that's probably why moving such
packages over was not instantaneous.


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