Johnny Hughes wrote:
However, CentOS is designed to be Enterprise and provide support for 7 years ... what is going to happen when you decide that you no longer want to support your software? That is right .. I GET TO SUPPORT IT FOR 7 YEARS.
Wait and see what happens when some of these "so called" extras packages move on past the version of python, glibc, php, etc. and fail to compile on the el4 or el5 target.
EPEL is a great idea ... but I want to see what happens when it gets hard. I want to see what drops and what doesn't when the project upstream moves to requireing php5 or python-2.4; what are the el4 guys going to do. In CentOS, we try to support what we have and we have made a 7 year commitment.
Any chance of joining forces with Scientific Linux in the add-on department at least to the point of having common repositories in yum (perhaps disabled by default)? Their goals seem similar including the support lifetime and they already have a packaged sun java:
https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/5x/features/added