On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > On 09/13/2012 06:42 PM, Jeff Sheltren wrote: >> 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 : >>> > But for those who do not have prior > knowledge, like it or not, yum install epel-release is way easier than > to follow "go read our wiki page on adding 3rd party repos and pay > attention to priorities". Yes, I know, they should read/learn. But > helping them by excluding the "hunt for epel-release and install it" > part will not hurt. And yum install http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7 is hard? Googling "install epel-release" gets the following url: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_can_I_install_the_packages_from_the_EPEL_software_repository.3F If they can find IRC they should be able to follow enough directions to google as above. Oh and in case it is not clear I am in the do nothing camp. Regards, -- Tom me at tdiehl.org Spamtrap address me123 at tdiehl.org