While we haven't quite ironed out the details, I am presuming this:

-This would basically be what CentOS would be like if it had a
community model more like ours.
-Most likely, we will strive to be 100% compatible with RHEL.
-There are already enough addon repositories (EPEL, Repoforge, etc),
we don't need another one.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison
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> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Shawn Thompson wrote:
>
>> Okay, this is a little important, so read carefully:
>>
>> Andrew Cutler (a person I noticed on Twitter, I had emailed, and
>> surprisingly responded) has proposed the formation of a  community
>> consortium to help develop a common "meta-distribution" for
>> community-based EL products, which could most likely also serve as a
>> distribution of its own.
>
> Sorry, I don't quite follow.
> This would be a replacement/alternative/rival to CentOS/the Yale
> equivalent/SL etc, rather than another epel/rpmforge/dag
> ie a base repo or an addon repo ? Or something of both ?
>
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