On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:32 AM, 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 : > EPEL is the first thing I add to most servers I manage (CentOS or RHEL). I would like the added convenience of having it included by default -- either of the options you listed would be OK for me from that perspective. However, including it in the base OS doesn't make a lot of sense to me as we look for a way to scale it out to include other repos as well. Adding those to CentOS Extras seems like the way to go to make it a low barrier of entry to enable repos (I assume with some sort of qualification before we include them). I have to say though, I rarely use CentOS Extras, and I'd be more likely to stick with adding EPEL in a kickstart file. I understand that's not for everyone though. <snip from kickstart> repo --name=epel --baseurl=http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/fedora-epel/5/x86_64/ [...] %packages @base epel-release [...] </snip> -Jeff