> > 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