We are evaluating building packages from Fedora Extras for RHEL

[Steven Pritchard]

On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 08:07:05PM +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> While it is nice to have FE packages available for RHEL (I use kbsingh's
> packages myself) it is absolutely clear to me (as an administrator) that
> we are talking about two different "classes" of software.

Still, it would be nice if FE repos were included with RHEL, although
I would assume they would be disabled by default.

> I do not think that the fedora project in it's current state is able to
> maintain software over the same period as a RHEL release. Just think
> about where you were, what you were doing and what your plans were seven
> years ago.

Heh...  I was doing more-or-less the same job I do today, except I was
building a lot more packages for HP-UX than Linux.  (My employer at
the time was an HP-UX shop, but we were working on fixing that...)

Steve
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