Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/RPMforge


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   Not delete.. Whether to merge or not can be worked out on the article talk page. Stifle (talk) 16:52, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

RPMforge

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Not particularly notable Oscarthecat (talk) 10:03, 22 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep . Trust me, these repositories are well-known to Fedora users, and Fedora is widely regarded as one of the leading Linux distributions. I'll go looking for references if I need to. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 10:10, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Having thought this over, I think it would make more sense to Merge this to Fedora (operating system) for now along with RPM Fusion, but make sure it is merged properly and all the information of substance is kept. (Best location seems to be in the same section as the Fedora derivatives.) Should these articles grow again (which is a possibility as the issue of nonfree software in Linux is a big one), we can split it off later. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 10:52, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Fedora (operating system) and leave an external link. It might be a well-known repository, but there's not much to tell about it. A bare link to the place would serve Wikipedia visitors better. - Mgm|(talk) 11:40, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep - Well-known if you're a Fedora user, but it could possibly be merged with Fedora. David WS (contribs)  22:42, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:10, 27 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 07:50, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Fedora (operating system). It makes sense to mention the most significant 3rd party repositories there. Pcap ping  09:02, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Keep, or at minimum redirect to a page which explicitly explains the purpose and merits of each of the addon repositories for RedHat. I believe rpmforge is the most notable of them. A simple redirect to Fedora would leave the user little wiser. Also note the repository is important for Red Hat, CentOS and Scientific Linux, not merely the Fedora subset. It seems that rpmforge is being subsumed into something called rpmrepo, but the relations between the projects is badly explained. Wikipedia can provided a useful independant reference here.

Vicarage (talk) 21:18, 30 November 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.