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.


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