The incredibly shrinking RHEL

[Orion Poplawski <orion@xxxxxxxx>]

While working on EPEL9, it seems that even more packages are missing 
from RHEL9 than were in RHEL8.  The latest I found was cppunit, which 
appears to be completely missing from the CS9 repos despite having been 
built (See 
https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=2414) and 
presumably in the CS9/RHEL9 buildroot.

So I scraped some screens from pkgs.org:

Stream 9:

CentOS AppStream Official   x86_64 8882
CentOS BaseOS Official      x86_64 2357
CentOS CRB Official         x86_64 1856

Stream 8:

CentOS AppStream Official   x86_64 15008
CentOS BaseOS Official      x86_64 6721
CentOS PowerTools Official  x86_64 3771

That's a pretty big difference.  Now, I don't know how many were dropped 
completely and how many are of the "buildroot only" variety.  But I 
suspect there is a fair amount of the latter and so a lot of make-work 
ahead of us for EPEL9.

Packaging for EPEL9 is starting to feel more and more like cleaning the 
Augean stables with RedHat piling up more manure.

--
Orion Poplawski
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