using other distro's repos?

[anthony baldwin]

anthony baldwin wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>   
>> Colin Brace wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> On Jan 10, 2008 7:31 AM, anthony baldwin <anthony.baldwin01 at comcast.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Is it possible to enable repos from other .deb based distros?
>>>>
>>>>         
>> This is beginning to sound like /The Divine Linux Comedy/:
>>
>> Part 1, Linux Inferno, in which the narrator mixes repositories;
>> Part 2, Linux Purgatorio, in which the narrator learns the wisdom of
>> choosing carefully;
>> Part 3, Linux Paradiso, in which the narrator has a beatiful Kubuntu system
>> (and a coffee).
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> If a program isn't in your distro repo(s), you download and compile
>>> the source, non è vero?
>>>     
>>>       
>> Preferably from the Ubuntu source packages
>>   
>>     
> I'm continually disappointed by the lack of stuff in the PCLOS repos 
> that we have in Ubuntu.
>   

They don't have user lists like this, either...just online forums.
I definitely prefer lists.

Ubuntu is just better.


> I wondered if I could grab such stuff from other rpm places, like 
> fedora, mandriva, etc.
> Ubuntu has almost every thing I need.
>
> I know, I could hunt down rpms on line and install by hand...but, 
> where's the fun in that?
>   

Honestly, that's why I left fedora and came to ubuntu.
Yum kept breaking stuff, and installing by hand was an exericise
in recursive dependency searches from hell...

/tony




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