On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > hi, > > We are going to need to find a way to address content in CentOS ( or > well, content in EPEL ) where there are packages in centos that didnt > come from rhel but are going to overlap with whats in EPEL. > > Technically, this is a centos.org issue since EPEL's mandate requires > them to not overlap with RHEL[1]. But with stuff going into > CentOS-Extras/ and more content coming onboard from SIG's - and even > from Core SIG - how are we going to address the overlap / flapping > potential with EPEL ? > > I am going to be pulling in cloud-init with a couple of deps, need to > have these in the centos.org repos to do cloud instance builds. > > - KB > > [1]: I am not sure if EPEL cant overlap with base RHEL or with variants > and layered products ? EPEL is historically exremely cautios *not* to overlap with RHEL, and thus with basic CentOS. extras..... is another issue.