On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
On 02/25/2014 04:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On the other hand it would save a step for many users and lower the learning curve for anyone new to include the release-rpm for the elrepo and EPEL repositories in the distribution - even if they were disabled by default.
As Jim already mentioned - the point of consideration for such efforts would be on the repository people in that effort - we would welcome pretty much any reasonable suggestion from their end. For ELRepo and what they do - I dont see any reason why they could not atleast use the infra and distribution mechanism that we have here and work out of the same codebase contents.
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.
Akemi