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

Am 06.11.19 um 21:43 schrieb Brian Stinson:
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019, at 14:34, Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> 
> Any unshipped package that is the member of a module is part of a blacklist in the distro repodata. If we don't bundle these into a module, there's no way for your workstation to know that this package is intended to be installable.
> 

Thanks for clarifing this!

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Leon