On 06/27/2014 04:48 PM, Jim Perrin wrote: > > > On 06/27/2014 09:35 AM, Dan Porter wrote: >> My main concern would be that it would give an implicit approval of all >> EPEL packages for CentOS 7. That also implies that we would support >> EPEL packages in the IRC channel and other forums even though CentOS has >> no control over those packages at all. >> >> Remember that by installing the ‘release’ package from any repository, you >> implicitly agree to the terms they provide in their license. I don’t think >> we’ll have to support EPEL as a result (just support for the release >> package itself) >> > > > Most of the irc regulars already recommend EPEL as the first place to go > for things not in the distro, so there's already some level of implicit > approval. You are correct in that we only need to support the release > package itself. Anything beyond that is up to the whims of whoever is > helping on irc. If they choose to assist, I don't see a problem. If they > choose to punt over the fence into #epel, that works too. > > > its also worth noting that epel does not overwrite stuff in the distro. And we might need to / want to setup some sort of a nightly test in ci.dev.centos.org to verify this and email / alert the right people. - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc