On 26 February 2014 04:53, Johnny Hughes <johnny@centos.org> wrote:

On 02/26/2014 05:31 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 02/26/2014 11:25 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>>> there are more than 100 repos out there, which ones are we going to add
>> Those who provide the most desired packages and have been qualified by
>> the community as being in good shape.
> this is the important thing - what I've been trying to stress for a
> while as well. This 'qualified by the community' needs to be a
> measurable metric.
>

Lets just get specific here an explain why this can be sticky.

OK, so repoforge and EPEL do not play nicely together. We would, in my
opinion, only be able to include one or the other release file in our
extras repo as installing both produces broken yum installs of packages.

That is but one example.

I personally would have no real problem with both an epel-release and an
elrepo-release RPM in CentOS Extras ... but then why not also
nux-desktop or remi or repoforge? Those will not all work together, who
do we leave out?

Both EPEL and ELRepo have said they do not want to be a CentOS SIG and
want to be "independent". We have offered and they have refused .. Okay
fine, that is their choice, they are independent. If you want them in
CentOS, tell them on their lists to join as a CentOS SIG.

Just to be clear here.. EPEL doesn't have an organization which could say yay or nay on it. It is a anarcho-syndicalist commune at best (an autonomous commune would be going to far). Some people say yay, some people say nay, some people say whats in it for me. I expect that most are waiting to see how the CentOS SIGs get put into place and release stuff with 7 to see what they want to do.

Stephen J Smoogen.