[CentOS-devel] Shipping an EPEL release

Thu Sep 13 15:54:34 UTC 2012
Trevor Hemsley <trevor.hemsley at ntlworld.com>

On 13/09/12 16:32, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> hi guys,
> 
> One bit of feedback at LinuxCon this year from people was that we should
> ship epel with a lower barrier to entry. And I have mixed feelings about
> that. But I wanted to know what everyone else thinks about :
> 
> 1) Shipping epel-release in CentOS-Extras, so its installable, usable
> out of the box.

This one looks best from POV of amount of work needed and also because
it won't be enabled by default.

I'd also suggest adding ELRepo...

Perhaps a big note in the release notes saying it's there but not
endorsed etc etc?

Trevor