Re: Thoughts: epel-release auto-enable crb repo

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Jun 4, 2022 4:01:42 PM Troy Dawson <tdawson@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> 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 will just add that both of these issues can be remedied. For my part, I have suggested edits on Troy's epel-release PR[1] to allow an opt-out mechanism and make the script more robust. Users who are knowledgeable enough to check whether the packages they use need CRB should also be able to opt out.

I think the real question is whether epel-release should be touching subscriptions/repos it doesn't own in the first place (Troy's question #2).

Another option would be to have the %post script only print a warning if CRB/Powertools isn't enabled instead of actually enabling it. This won't help with automated deployments[2], but it should catch some cases.

[1]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/epel-release/pull-request/21
[2]: With my ansible hat on, it also doesn't help that the two most popular epel roles on Ansible Galaxy don't enable CRB/Powertools, but I disgress.
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Thanks,

Maxwell G (@gotmax23)
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