On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Steve Traylen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've users who wish to have gnuplot42 on SL5 (and4)
>
> These are some packages here I've done:
>
> http://cern.ch/straylen/rpms/gnuplot42/
>
> which are designed to not interfere with the existing gnuplot packages
> present in  SL4/5.
>
> I do have an open review here for EPEL:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570318
>
> but due to lack of interest I guess it is not progressing.
> If it does progress I'll bump to higher release version in EPEL
> than in SL and advise SL of its redundancy in SL.
>
> Please consider gnuplot42 inclusion into SL.
>
> Steve

As a data point we replace the sl gnuplot with our own build of 4.2 
because a few of our users needed a newer version...

Not that I spent much effort on the packaging but the rpms/srpm are 
available from our sl repo if anyone needs such a thing.

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