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

On 06/17/2014 11:13 AM, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Karanbir Singh <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?


+1 to CentOS-Extras here as well.

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