On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
No, I want to understand the effect on an end user when only one repo refuses to add a unique tag. I don't want to fight the war - I want to know which way to duck.
I think the issue now is that other repo's decided to drop their own repo tags as a result of EPEL's decision. So that could potentially lead to some conflict.
I think a lot of this stems from the fact that EPEL considered themselves a bit like Fedora Extras aka "upstream" in a sense. Which actually seemed somewhat to make sense to me, but...
EPEL does not do RHEL2 nor does RHEL3. Much like Fedora Legacy you may see that there is a big interest in RHEL5, and when RHEL6 comes out, and then RHEL7 the interest moves on.
RHEL5 will become the RHEL2 of today.
I don't see Fedora EPEL as upstream, but I may be alone in that.
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