[CentOS-devel] Shipping an EPEL release

Fri Sep 14 18:48:16 UTC 2012
Christoph Galuschka <christoph.galuschka at chello.at>

>
> 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.
>
> Ofcourse, if we do either (1) or (2) we would need to set some sort of a
> baseline standard that allows other repo's to be included as well ( as +
> if they meet the baseline standard )
>

I add EPEL to all C6 installations because there is a certain set of 
packages which I need from that repo. But this is done by a script which 
sord of customizes the C6 installation to my needs.

So basically I'm fine doing this by hand.

Long story short: options 3 and 1 (in this order) get my vote. To be 
honest I never thought about other repos being part of CentOS by default.

Christoph