R P Herrold wrote:
Some interesting text at the bottom of that page, justifying exclusion of RPMForge's disttags:
Is not RHEL (and, by extension, CentOS) a cherry-picked snapshot of Fedora? Will the next RHEL not be some slice of Fedora? If RHEL comes from Fedora, then at some point in time the current RHEL will need to be upgradable to some extraction of Fedora.
Please let foreign project practices not be argued here. ... again ... for what seems like the 20th time.
Fedora has its views, and RPMForge its. Neither is CentOS. CentOS just replicates an upstream's free bits. ONCE RELEASED. No sense in reading tea leaves here.
It doesn't matter who does it or where - making something that is not inherently backwards compatible is bound to cause pain.