I also Using debian. They have official backports packages team.
Which ship new kernel, latest software upgrade for debian stable released.

CentOS lacks of latest kernel, latest software upgrade.

EPEL and elrepo enhanced CentOS. 
But there be bad side. 
They were not ship by CentOS community officially.
Which means their project may discontinued in any time.

Why Debian do their best provided us the backports packages?
Enhanced the debian environment.The sad side is CentOS community Lack of vision.

No responsibility, no future

 
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From: Jim Perrin
Date: 2014-02-26 08:13
To: The CentOS developers mailing list.
Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Is it possible to merge elrepo.org contribute to centos main repository?
 
 
On 02/25/2014 03:32 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
 
> What Les meant was the inclusion of the xxx-release packages in the
> distribution. Those package would not be installed by default, but
> will be just one yum command away:
>
> yum install elrepo-release
>
> or
>
> yum install epel-release
>
> Scientific Linux has them and that makes it easy for users to install
> those repos if/when they want them.
 
 
In the past, we had specifically avoided doing this for a few reasons:
 
1. We didn't want to be accused of playing favorites with 3rd party repos
 
2. We didn't want the expectation of support ("I didn't add anything to
the default centos, I just yum-installed it!")
 
3. We didn't want to ship code that wasn't built/signed by us.
 
 
Given the new structure, it may be worth having this conversation again.
Thoughts from the community?
 
 
 
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