On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:12:43PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > I understand how a lot of it "went down" (saw the meetings and am on > the lists as well), I'm just wondering if that aside (I know, hard to > do :), could there feasibly be an RPM-based solution to this that would > make repo-tags obsolete? Sure, but repotag are not the real issue, they were just the tip of the iceberg that rammed the Titanic. The discussion about them revealed certain aspects of EPEL or at least key persons inside EPEL that showed that there is no real interest in cooperating with other repos other than helping EPEL during the startup phase. EPEL created in RHEL-land the same rift that fedora.us created years back in Fedora-land. So maybe even the success of fedora.us is an ethically questionable roadmap for EPEL for dealing with repo-darwinism. Fedora.us ignored the existance of other repos and solely concentrated on their own growth while the other repos tried to remain compatible. This time the burden will not be pushed away, if EPEL breaks something they will have to fix it. So to get back to the original question: Should RPMforge and EPEL be mixed? Please ask EPEL on this and about the (lack of) guaranty that EPEL will not break RPMforge (or any other repo). -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070730/a61fc6f1/attachment-0005.sig>