[CentOS-devel] CentOS Streams q&a

Tue Sep 24 19:19:46 UTC 2019
David <opendak at shaw.ca>

On 2019-09-24 1:03 p.m., Greg Bailey wrote:
> On 9/24/19 11:24 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
>> Okay, now that the release is out, and everything is announced properly.
>> I'm happy to answer questions about Stream.
> 
> I assume that the FAQ page at https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ will grow to 
> include some of the Q&A discussed here?
> 
> My question originates from the (lack of) available desktops available 
> with CentOS 8.  Would alternative desktops such as MATE (or KDE, etc.) 
> continue to be published via the EPEL repository, or could new packages 
> be introduced via "streams"?  How does the contribution model for 
> streams differ from EPEL packagers?

The name is just 'stream' I think, not 'streams' implying there really 
is just one path of:

CentOS stream -> CentOS release + RedHat release