On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > On 02/25/2014 04:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On the other hand it would save a step for many users and lower the >> learning curve for anyone new to include the release-rpm for the >> elrepo and EPEL repositories in the distribution - even if they were >> disabled by default. > > As Jim already mentioned - the point of consideration for such efforts > would be on the repository people in that effort - we would welcome > pretty much any reasonable suggestion from their end. For ELRepo and > what they do - I dont see any reason why they could not atleast use the > infra and distribution mechanism that we have here and work out of the > same codebase contents. 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. Akemi