[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities
R P Herrold
herrold at owlriver.com
Sun Mar 20 15:56:30 UTC 2011
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> There are significant components of the upstream 5.6 release which are
> stuck behind the CentOS 5.6 release process, but are now incorporated
> in EPEL 5 components.
Sad that -- that the dependent partial Red Hat adjunct project
is not compatible with people not using Red Hat's product
The unpleasantness of reading continual criticism, from those
who will not do the minimal local rebuilds, to use the
packages from a project not affiliated with the CentOS
project, has pretty effectively driven the CentOS core
developers away from this mailing list
Congratulations
Niko, I notice you did out post your 'helpful criticism' to
which I respond, on the EPEL list on how to do the workaround
EPEL's policies of not shipping packages competing with Red
Hat's enterprise product. Perhaps they would welcome it
(probably not, as they consciously DO NOT COMPETE with the
parent product)
CentOS has an ethic of delivering a product with certain
quality expectations and testing before it is released (rather
than inflicting a partially baked release and then streaming
out curative fixes)
If a person doesn't like CentOS's pace and attention to
shipping durable and 'correct' releases or with different
features (as with EPEL), or want packages faster than CentOS'
rate, PLEASE encourage them to either learn to show some
minimal self-reliance in building, or to not use CentOS as a
base
my $ 0.02
-- Russ herrold
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