Axel Thimm wrote:
> Maybe the original draft will be picked up by other projects to signal
> their mode of collaboration, let's see. It certainly was in thge
> spirit of the existing 3rd party repos.
Maybe you should cut them a little slack considering that they are not
so experienced as the rest of you...
> Furthermore there have been many quotes in IRC and mail of various
> current EPEL steering members that they "aim higher" than the existing
> repos or see EPEL as the only repo long term and the like.
As long as there are policies about what can be in a repo or who can put
it there, there can never be just one repo. Everyone should understand
that by now.
> On the positive side one must say that Max Spevack was interested in a
> collaboration between EPEL and the rest of the world, but he's not
> forcing it onto the EPEL people.
I've never quite understood why you don't just give the packages
different names if they already exist in the disto-supported repo but
there might be some reason to want your version instead (or besides).
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Les Mikesell
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