> well in my eyes something like a public contrib repository would be nice (where everyone can at least upload spec files) and a something like a "repository directory" with a collection of available repositorys and their content.
> i am personally on a dsl dialup connection with 16kb/s upstream cap and that kinda sucks perhaps i am gonna still create a respository for small windowmaker dockapps in the future :).
I was thinkinf about an addition of another file: apt-repositories. Stick it on apt.freshmeat.net (the center of the apt universe, IMHO) and every time a new repository is added, the RPM can be rebuilt.  Heck, if I could get out of my depression, I could make the whole submission process automated....even making the RPM...

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Thanks for this, Matthias!  Hope you feel better.
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 04:50, Matthias Saou wrote:
> >     I was thinkinf about an addition of another file: apt-repositories.
> >     Stick it on apt.freshmeat.net (the center of the apt universe, IMHO)
> >     and every time a new repository is added, the RPM can be rebuilt.
> >     Heck, if I could get out of my depression, I could make the whole
> >     submission process automated....even making the RPM...
> Well, I already keep a list of known apt repositories on
> http://freshrpms.net/apt/ although I haven't added the ones that were
> talked about lately (actually I've been very busy over the week-end and I'm
> You could make the whole submission automated, even making the rpm?
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