[CentOS-devel] Is it possible to merge elrepo.org contribute to centos main repository?

[Carl Trieloff]

With the expansion of scope, SIGs via variants can now do all this,
newer kernels etc.

welcome to the new world.


On 02/25/2014 07:49 PM, zf at ancientrocklab.com wrote:
> I also Using debian. They have official backports packages team.
> Which ship new kernel, latest software upgrade for debian stable released.
>
> CentOS lacks of latest kernel, latest software upgrade.
>
> EPEL and elrepo enhanced CentOS. 
> But there be bad side. 
> They were not ship by CentOS community officially.
> Which means their project may discontinued in any time.
>
> Why Debian do their best provided us the backports packages?
> Enhanced the debian environment.The sad side is CentOS community Lack
> of vision.
>
> No responsibility, no future
>
>  
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> zf at ancientrocklab.com
>
>      
>     *From:* Jim Perrin <mailto:jperrin at centos.org>
>     *Date:* 2014-02-26 08:13
>     *To:* The CentOS developers mailing list.
>     <mailto:centos-devel at centos.org>
>     *Subject:* Re: [CentOS-devel] Is it possible to merge elrepo.org
>     contribute to centos main repository?
>      
>      
>     On 02/25/2014 03:32 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>      
>     > What Les meant was the inclusion of the xxx-release packages in the
>     > distribution. Those package would not be installed by default, but
>     > will be just one yum command away:
>     >
>     > yum install elrepo-release
>     >
>     > or
>     >
>     > yum install epel-release
>     >
>     > Scientific Linux has them and that makes it easy for users to
>     install
>     > those repos if/when they want them.
>      
>      
>     In the past, we had specifically avoided doing this for a few reasons:
>      
>     1. We didn't want to be accused of playing favorites with 3rd
>     party repos
>      
>     2. We didn't want the expectation of support ("I didn't add
>     anything to
>     the default centos, I just yum-installed it!")
>      
>     3. We didn't want to ship code that wasn't built/signed by us.
>      
>      
>     Given the new structure, it may be worth having this conversation
>     again.
>     Thoughts from the community?
>      
>      
>      
>     -- 
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