On 13 September 2012 16:32, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > hi guys, > > One bit of feedback at LinuxCon this year from people was that we should > ship epel with a lower barrier to entry. And I have mixed feelings about > that. But I wanted to know what everyone else thinks about : > > 1) Shipping epel-release in CentOS-Extras, so its installable, usable > out of the box. > > 2) Shipping epel-release in the distro itself, with the epel repos's > enabled=false. This is the option that most people seem to want, but I > am least keen on. > > 3) do nothing, leave things as they are. Apologies for my delayed response. (I'm still in "catch-up" mode.) If EPEL were to tag their RPM packages such that the package ownership is perfectly clear I would vote for (1). Unfortunately EPEL declines to tag their packages, so my vote is thus (3). Alan.