On 14.9.2012 17:46, Alan Bartlett wrote:
On 13 September 2012 16:32, Karanbir Singh mail-lists-XASut8F7j/3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org wrote:
hi guys,
One bit of feedback at LinuxCon this year from people was that we should ship epel with a lower barrier to entry. And I have mixed feelings about that. But I wanted to know what everyone else thinks about :
- Shipping epel-release in CentOS-Extras, so its installable, usable
out of the box.
- Shipping epel-release in the distro itself, with the epel repos's
enabled=false. This is the option that most people seem to want, but I am least keen on.
- do nothing, leave things as they are.
Apologies for my delayed response. (I'm still in "catch-up" mode.)
If EPEL were to tag their RPM packages such that the package ownership is perfectly clear I would vote for (1). Unfortunately EPEL declines to tag their packages, so my vote is thus (3).
Your tag argument seems different from all other arguments :-)
Throughout this thread people are saying 1 or 2 or 3 but what is with that baseline standards Karanbir mentioned? In my opinion this is the most important part of this. And the most difficult maybe.
...snip Ofcourse, if we do either (1) or (2) we would need to set some sort of a baseline standard that allows other repo's to be included as well ( as + if they meet the baseline standard ) ...snap
Do not ask if EPEL should be included or not but get clear what the standards should be for whatever repo. Maybe EPEL or maybe no repo in the world could catch up with this standards, but well then, lets choose 3.
Sorry if I am not entitled :-)