[CentOS-devel] Unshipped -devel packages in CentOS Linux

Leon Fauster

leonfauster at googlemail.com
Wed Nov 6 20:34:49 UTC 2019


Am 06.11.19 um 18:35 schrieb Brian Stinson:
<snip>
> 
> The problems we need to solve if we decide to ship these packages somewhere in
> a CentOS artifact:
> 
> - Communicate that these packages are provided as-is and are not meant for
>    runtime dependencies


Is a separate repo with a expressive name and corresponding wiki page 
not enough (like CR)?


> 
> - Provide the packages in a form that is consumable for individuals and the
>    EPEL community
> 
> I'd like to propose that we create a separate repository, disabled by default
> that is composed of the -devel packages that we care about, bundled in a module.\


Why modules? What problem gets addressed? Why not just dropping the 
unshipped build output into a separate repo?

--
Leon



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