On 11/6/07, Axel Thimm <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 06:46:04AM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On 11/6/07, Axel Thimm <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 08:47:54AM -0600, Troy Dawson wrote: > > > > That's a good idea as well. Find out which repositories from CentOS people > > > > want in. > > > > The one thing I worry about with EPEL is that I have heard that they often > > > > are not compatible with the CentOS, dag, and atrpms repositories. I > > > > haven't confirmed this, just heard it once or twice. > > > > > > There isn't much to confirm. Since EPEL doesn't want to be compatible > > > and the others won't take a one-sided burden of compatibilty there > > > will be no compatibility. If it works it will be by happenstance not > > > design. > > > > Axel, I know you are sleep deprived from a newborn, but that is BS. > > EPEL has done a lot of stuff to try and stay API/ABI compatible with > > CentOS and make sure that certain things work out of the box. They > > have removed packages that were already in CentOS and tried different > > tags to make sure CentOS didnt get over-written. > > > > What they didn't do was do %dist tags, mostly because they felt > > certain groups drew a line in the sand of do it or else and they like > > every other developer are stupid enough to cross over it. They are > > paying for that as they have to go deal with various problems, and my > > guess is that in a year or two they will review and say "hmmm" that > > would be a good idea to deal with something. > > Long before the newborn entered my life (and made me happier and > certainly more resitant to BS by EPEL) [1] EPEL was placed before a > choice of working with 3rd parties or not on the example of repotags > (*not* disttags). There were explicit requests (not by me) whether > this is to be interpreted as EPEL-Darwinism which were positively > acknowldeged by EPEL steering `chairmen'. > [1] I also feel that this comment on me being overtaxed and the choice > of BS'ing my opinion is not really proper. Have a different > opinion by all means. My apologies. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed, and should have not sent that email until my early morning coffee had kicked in. I disagree on the fact that EPEL was trying to shutdown other distros etc... but I should have held my tongue and not used the word BS for it. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"