[CentOS] MATE desktop dependency?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 22:01:01 UTC 2015


On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
>>>
>> It's not so much a matter of having a "view" of CR as that I didn't
>> expect things to appear in EPEL that depend on base versions that
>> aren't in general release yet.  Is that intentional, and don't some
>> number of people have to approve something before it gets out of
>> epel-testing?  Does everyone else have cr enabled?
>>
>
> See my other post to this list.  EPEL is written for and built against
> RHEL, which is on 7.1.  You will either have to wait until we release
> our 7.1, use CR or buy RHEL.

That makes sense - but it also makes it an ongoing issue for Centos
users to expect.  It's not a serious problem for me, but it would be a
bad first experience with CentOS if someone tries to install a system
with MATE Desktop today.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com



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