[CentOS-devel] Re: Octave for CentOS5

Wed Mar 7 16:55:38 UTC 2007
Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>

Karanbir Singh wrote:

> Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:36:52PM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>> EPEL is interesting and it has a lot of potential, but the fact that
>>> they only care about, build for and expect usage on RHEL tends to sort
>>> of exclude a lot of external participation in the project. So much so
>>> that a @redhat person said that the only aim they have in pushing epel
>>> is to they can go tell their customers about it!!
>> 
>> I don't think this is quite fair. At the FUDCon discussion I was at,
>> there was considerable interest in working on -- and with -- CentOS.

> This is based on what was told to us at Fosdem 2007.

You were told or heard wrong. (:

-- Rex