[CentOS] about new Centos SIG distro releases

[Phelps, Matt]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:

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>
> On 03/31/2014 07:28 AM, Phelps, Matt wrote:
> > Initial reaction: Crap!
> >
> > One of the best things about CentOS, in my opinion, was not having to
> deal
> > with all the different RHEL builds/releases/whatever they called them,
> and
> > just having ONE distribution.
>
> This doesn't change. It's the core sig.
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>
But the current "core" distribution has KVM/libvirt, and all the desktop
stuff, and apache, etc. etc, each of which sounds like it will be broken
out into a separate "SIG."

Please, please don't do this. Let us do our jobs and pick what we need from
the same install depending on what kind of machine we're installing.

I don't want to have to change our whole installation environment, which
we're take years of work to get the way we want it, based on someone else's
arbitrary rearranging of what's needed for "Storage" or "Virtualization,"
etc.

>
> > So much for that.
> >
> > It didn't take long for Red Hat to get their mitts all over CentOS, huh?
>
> We were already doing this sort of thing with the Xen4CentOS build, and
> the plus repo before the RH agreement. We're simply able to expand on
> this type of effort now.
>
>
Both of those are additions to "CentOS."  Please don't break up "CentOS"
arbitrarily into separate "products" like Red Hat needlessly did. Let us
pick and choose what we need easily.

The whole point of an "Enterprise " environment is to minimize the change
so we don't have to re-tool everything.

(Sorry for all the sarcastic quotes, but I'm upset. This is exactly the
sort of meddling I was afraid of when Red Hat took over.)


-- 
Matt Phelps
System Administrator, Computation Facility
Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu