Thanks a lot for all the responses! On 4/13/21 8:45 AM, Troy Dawson wrote: > Yes, this has been discussed before on the list. And it's a rather sore > point. > > There are several -devel packages that are available on INTERNAL RHEL > repositories, but they are never released externally. > Thus any RHEL customers are not able to use them to build things that > depend on those libraries, such as your example, libuser. > > CentOS is a clone (warts and all) of RHEL, and thus doesn't have those > -devel packages available either. > > It's been this way since the release of RHEL8. > > Has there been any progress? > Yes, a bit. > First, check to make sure there is a bugzilla open for whichever missing > -devel package you need. > Next, wait several months/years to see the debate go back and forth on > the bug. It's possible it might make it in. > > Sorry for the sad tone, it's just a battle I've been waging since before > RHEL8 was released. I've given up hope for them being released on > RHEL8, though occasionally I am happily surprised. One of the packages > I've been fighting for will be released in RHEL 8.4 ... but that's just > 1 out of 4. I see, thanks for the confirmation. Last time I came across this was around RHEL 8.1 release, but back then I simply dismissed it since RHEL 8 was still relatively new. It's kind of sad it hasn't improved much since then. I definitely agree with the "supportability" reason Johnny raised in the other thread, but for -devel package it doesn't make much sense (at least to me). On 4/13/21 5:49 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > and see what the other board members think about the issue. I'll make > sure the results make the minutes. > > This is an issue that I care about as a CentOS Project Board of > Directors member. Thanks a lot for this, Johnny, much appreciated! -- Frantisek Sumsal GPG key ID: 0xFB738CE27B634E4B -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20210413/c3608adb/attachment-0003.sig>