Fedora RPMs

Dejan Lekic dejan.lekic at gmail.com
Fri Jan 3 07:32:57 PST 2014


On Tuesday, 10 December 2013 at 12:23:21 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 15:54 +0100, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> […]
>> 
>> Btw, I forgot to tell you... I talked to fedora people about 
>> having dmd in Fedora. They said it will probably be rejected 
>> because of the backend license, because they are not allowed 
>> to freely distribute the software. So I guess we will most 
>> likely have to setup our own YUM repository on dlang.org - 
>> that is probably the best course of action. If someone has 
>> better idea, please share it.
>
> RPM Fusion seems to be the place for RPMs that cannot be part 
> of the
> Fedora distribution.

Russel, I am aware of that, but RPM Fusion is an unofficial 
(although admittedly often used) repository. If RPMFusion is our 
only choice I would rather use RPM directly from www.dlang.org .


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