On 02/26/2014 02:13 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
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:
We didn't want to be accused of playing favorites with 3rd party repos
We didn't want the expectation of support ("I didn't add anything to
the default centos, I just yum-installed it!")
- 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?
I am as much in favor of including epel- and elrepo-release as I could be. They are reputable and widely used and making them easier available for end users instead of having people sent to look for instructions would definitely make CentOS more user friendly. However by default I would keep them disabled.
I'd even like to see them included in the full-DVD, maybe in a separate /extras directory