Can't speak for Fedora specifically, but on RHEL you add repos to txt
configs under /etc/yum.repos.d The files are ini style [setting] ...
key=value

Yes, unfortunately it can be that clumsy, I've used CentOS and Fedora
in the past, they drive me nuts with package management (as well as
the bloat).

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Jeremy MountainJohnson
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On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 5:51 AM, Rick Engebretson <eng at pinenet.com> wrote:
> I got a very nice 10 disk set of Fedora 26 from OSDisc.com recently. It
> consisted of 1 Gnome and 1 KDE Live install each, and 8 repository disks. I
> had gotten similar sets of opensuse 12.2 and 11.3 years ago, so I had some
> experience with the tricky repository install. Opensuse online repositories
> can be tricky, too, so a permanent stable repository on disk is nice.
>
> My question is, can Fedora really be so clumsy?? Is Gnome really so
> non-intuitive, and are they too smart to need a fine tuned cursor arrow??
> KDE is reasonably familiar with opensuse but I can't figure out how to
> install packages from the Fedora repository. I have an ancient RedHat9 set I
> could figure out, but not Fedora. The opensuse Yast interface is great to
> help a user get past configuration and into development familiarity, but I
> would like to think I can be competent in alternative distros.
>
> The best I can figure is the KDE tool "Discover" is supposed to construct a
> repository RPM database, but I don't see where it can be reconfigured to
> local disk storage.
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