[Cerowrt-users] Missing packages in CeroWrt repository

[Paul Tow]

I installed CeroWrt two days ago and have noticed that some packages are 
missing from its repository. Specifically, nginx, rtorrent, tmux, and 
screen are in the official OpenWrt trunk repository for ar71xx ( 
http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/packages/ ), but not 
in the CeroWrt repository. Why is this?

Is it possible for me to list multiple repositories in /etc/opkg.conf, 
and somehow specify their priority? Then I could set it to prefer 
packages from the CeroWrt repository, but still have access to packages 
that are only in the official OpenWrt repository. The opkg page on the 
OpenWrt Wiki ( 
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/techref/opkg?s[]=etc&s[]=opkg&s[]=conf#configuration 
) doesn't make it clear if this kind of setup is possible.

Speaking of nginx, I've read that it uses less CPU and RAM than lighttpd 
and is more actively developed, so I'm curious why CeroWrt's developers 
chose lighttpd instead. Does nginx have a problem or a lack of needed 
functionality, or was it not considered?

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Web_Server_Performance_Comparison
http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/lighttpd_vs_nginx
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/http.nginx
http://nginx.org/en/

CeroWrt is a great project and I appreciate the work its developers do. 
Thank you!