He's asking exactly that: why is a package in portage that's isn't allowed in yum, while both programs are 'repositories' of sorts.
I can't give you a factual answer, but I can give you a guess: it's possible yum has different guidelines on including files, such as the sun-jdk you pointed out. Licensing restrictions, maybe? But no, that wouldn't make sense. Or would it? On 5/22/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what are you asking? > > On Mon, 23 May 2005 02:12:43 +0100 > THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > > > what is about portage which allows > > <http://packagestest.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?sun-jdk-1.5.0.03>, which > > don't exist in yum? > > > > > > thanks, > > > > Thufir > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- > Nick Rout > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
