On 09/01/2010 03:55 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 9/1/10 5:57 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> Ofcourse, the fact that epel will end up rebuilding packages that are in >> rhel core is going to be an interesting twist - specially when pkg >> maintainers are different. > How can this possibly work with other 3rd party repos? Or does EPEL still not > admit that other repos exist and are absolutely necessary? The mere fact that Stephen asked here is the proof that EPEL DOES care about other repos. I also would like to point to Kevin's message ( https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2010-August/msg00158.html ) which also proves that EPEL does try to avoid creating interoperability problems [*] Please, let's focus on technical issues and not restart an useless flame war. [*] even if (sadly) other maintainers do not care about anything beyond fedora