On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:15:53AM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:09:52PM -0700, C.M. Connelly wrote: > > "JEC" == Jordi Espasa Clofent <sistemes.llistes at intergrid.cat> > > > > JEC> Hi all, I've always used kb, dries and dag's repos in > > JEC> CentOS 4.x. > > > > JEC> Now I'm testing CentOS 5.x (congratulation for your great > > JEC> work!) and I wonder if the three popular repos called > > JEC> above are available/compatible for CentOS 5. > > > > Note that another option is/will be the Fedora EPEL (``Extra > > Packages for Enterprise Linux'') [...] > > I know that Dag and Karanbir both participate in the list (I'm > > making no claims for their satisfaction with how things are going > > so far). Axel Thimm, who's a Fedora developer who also runs a > > third-party repo, is also very active with EPEL. > > But also very disappointed from the course that EPEL chose to take wrt > to all other 3rd party repos. He's currently stripping off repotags > from his repo cursing all day people in EPEL that forced him to do > this. FWIW I finally stepped down from epel today: http://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-May/msg00019.html More time for other projects, like improving "third party CentOS 5 compatibility" (quoting the subject) with the repos that do care about each-other. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20070507/dab33b88/attachment-0007.sig>