On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 01:16:47PM -0500, Merlin Mathesius wrote: > I was asked to draft a plan stating what EPEL 8 should do regarding > Software Collections. The draft I came up with is included below. Looks good to me. +1 here. > EPEL Steering Committee: Please ratify this plan or provide feedback as > necessary. When it's ready, and I will prepare a PR for this to land in > https://pagure.io/epel/blob/master/f/docs/source That would be great... kevin -- > > Regards, > > Merlin > > ------------------------------ > > > *Regarding EPEL and Software Collections* > *Background* > > For RHEL 8, Red Hat made the decision to provide multiple versions of > software in the form of App Stream modules instead of Red Hat Software > Collections (RHSCLs). > > SCLs are maintained by the CentOS Software Collections SIG, not the EPEL > SIG. > > RHEL 8 comes with the scl-utils and scl-utils-build packages--which contain > tools for using and building SCLs. These packages appear to function as > expected with RHEL 8 and CentOS 8. > > *Recommendations* > > EPEL will not provide SCL support, although it will not prohibit use of the > SCL tools provided with RHEL 8. > > EPEL will not provide any SCLs. > > EPEL encourages the community to follow Red Hat’s lead and provide multiple > versions of software for RHEL 8 and CentOS 8 in the form of modules rather > than SCLs. > > For use cases that require the parallel installation of multiple versions > of the same component, EPEL recommends the same solution as RHEL 8: > containers. > > ------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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