When I first created the EPEL issue to auto-enable crb repo[1] I was only thinking of CAN we do it. I wasn't thinking SHOULD we do it.
We've come to the point that we actually can do it. But before we go down that road, I wanted to take a step back and ask, should we do it.
The more I think about it, the more I think we shouldn't auto-enable the crb repo for epel8 and epel9. Here are my reasons why.
1 - The need to auto-enable crb isn't as big as it was before.
At the time that I wrote that issue, I was getting quite alot of bugs / pings / emails about epel packages not being installable. I think on average about 2 a month.
With epel being in fedora-docs, and with Carl's re-write of how to enable epel, that number has dropped significantly. I possibly still average one a month, but that's an average over a year, with most of them being last year.
In short, I believe the documentation is better, and easier to find, allowing people to enable crb on their own, without automation.
2 - crb isn't an epel repo
We really shouldn't be messing with other repo's that we, epel, don't own.
3 - We are taking the choice away from users
After I stopped and thought about it, there are plenty of scenarios where people want epel for just one or two packages, which do not require crb.
4 - All the many small side cases.
auto-enabling crb will have bugs. RHEL and it's clones are in too many odd places for us to not hit some odd use cases we didn't expect. We'd have to keep fixing the scripts.
I could go into more explanation on each of those things, but in the end, I've talked myself out of wanting to auto-enable crb for epel8 and epel9.
But I also wanted to get others' thoughts before I close the bug and pull request.
What do others think?
Troy
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