Conversations with centos-devel

[Jesse Keating]

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On 09/18/2010 11:10 AM, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:40:28 -0600
> Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I sent a ping a while back on putting in a weight of 2000 for EPEL-6
>> and the general consensus was that it did not matter to them what we
>> did. [More or less.] So I would say that when we update the
>> epel-release next time to put it in the epel.repo. [And make sure we
>> announce it for partners.]
> 
> And if we do that, we should be able to clone RHEL Workstation packages
> (the ones not in RHEL Server) and put them EPEL without causing issues
> for RHEL Workstation users...
> 
> Shouldn't we?
> 

I'm of the opinion that we should still not do this, except for extreme
situations.  EPEL was not meant to be an end-run around RHEL packages or
RHEL pricing, and while we could technically do it and have less chance
of hurting people's systems, I don't think EPEL is the place for that.
There is plenty of room for a slightly more removed repository from EPEL
where one could provide updated versions of packages.


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Jesse Keating
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