[CentOS-devel] RHEL Extras and what we might do with them

[Christoph Galuschka]

Am 17.06.2014 18:13, schrieb Jeff Sheltren:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org
> <mailto:mail-lists at karan.org>> wrote:
>
>     hi,
>
>     So we now have RHEL media, RHEL optionals and RHEL Extras. Optionals and
>     media seems to tie in as before, however Extras has its own policy +
>     lifeterm etc.
>
>     Thoughts on what we might do with those rpms ? I'd have though that
>     putting them in CentOS-Extras would line up nicely. Content that is
>     available out of the blocks to anyone with a CentOS install, but not
>     themselves included in the distro.
>
>     thoughts ?
>
>
> I like that approach.  If these packages actually have different
> lifetime expectancies, may change versions, etc. I think putting them in
> Base could be problematic.  CentOS-Extras seems like a good compromise.
>   Is there any reason these might need to be separated from what was
> historically in CentOS-Extras?
>
> -Jeff
+1

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