On Wed, Apr 8, 2015, at 02:31 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

I don't think EPEL could fit in here because the audience for EPEL is a lot more conservative in what they want than what people working on anything from this decade want.

An important point of this "CentOS.devel" repository would be that EPEL would *not* be present in the buildroot - this is only for newer versions of the core packages which should be self-hosting.

(Snip lots of other discussion about EPEL)