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? > > > > -- > Jim Perrin > The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org > twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20140226/4fe32cd5/attachment-0007.html>