[CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

Tue Jun 30 11:10:53 UTC 2009
Marcus Moeller <mail at marcus-moeller.de>

Hi all,

> I have been using RPMforge much longer than EPEL and only have a few
> packages from EPEL on my 5.3 (32 bit) desktop. When I added the EPEL
> Repository to Priorities, the number of packages excluded went from
> approximately 400 to 1705. My belief is that had I not given EPEL a
> very low priority, it would have replaced approximately 1300 packages.
> Probably those whose priority is to have the latest and greatest
> should be using another distro (Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.). The philosophy
> behind Enterprise Distros is stability and security and long life, not
> having the latest and greatest packages.

There was a time where CentOS contrib repo has been announced. It was
meant to be a package source for 'community-contributed' packages. So
why not just merge stable RPMForge packages over there and start a
'semi-official' CentOS orientated repository from the scratch.

Best Regars
Marcus