[CentOS-devel] Request for epel-release package in CentOS repo

[Johnny Hughes]

On 04/25/2014 08:17 AM, Nux! wrote:
> On 25.04.2014 13:49, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>>> Thoughts?
>> I have to play devil's advocate here. Quote from
>> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2014-February/009830.html:
>>
>>    there are more than 100 repos out there, which ones are we going
>> to add and why and
>>    then at that point what do the others need to do in order to also 
>> get
>>    included ?
> Guys, we are beating around the bush here and missing the obvious - 
> which is even more obvious since the RH acquisition.
>
> We all know EPEL is "special"; first of all there are loads of 
> developers contributing to it, second it is officially part of the 
> RedHat world (legalese bullshit aside), third it probably has the least 
> number of complaints against it, implying good quality.
>
> Given the above I'd say it's pretty safe and useful to add epel-release 
> to Extras.
>
> Why don't we add another of the 100s of repos? Because none of the 
> other tick all the boxes above.
>
> My 2 slips of gold-pressed latinum.

Agreed ...

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