I realize this is a bit of a pipe dream, but is there "some way" to ship a repo file from EPEL that points to the crb repo(s)? Folks not wanting it could block the package/not install weak deps. Getting the right repos is a bit tricky but I figured I'd voice the idea... Pat On Sat, 2022-06-04 at 13:52 -0700, Troy Dawson wrote: > 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 > > > [1] - https://pagure.io/epel/issue/128 > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to > epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.fedoraproject.org_en-2DUS_project_code-2Dof-2Dconduct_&d=DwIGaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=OAMtP0DWou0nlXG7Kmxo2enjXJfwb1DXS9fwcaESuTE&m=46SEe1P-KfUUtAfirZYHn5ATxfTJ_Q6spfT4LcmtWv44xjf03U3-eLIQq8CkFvza&s=d0B-lUzeMAZ-0S04uVby7ub-ORVZmAB6b5jp1yJRsuE&e= > > List Guidelines: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__fedoraproject.org_wiki_Mailing-5Flist-5Fguidelines&d=DwIGaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=OAMtP0DWou0nlXG7Kmxo2enjXJfwb1DXS9fwcaESuTE&m=46SEe1P-KfUUtAfirZYHn5ATxfTJ_Q6spfT4LcmtWv44xjf03U3-eLIQq8CkFvza&s=KUWCI2iU_-iPDDRDPyScLagKSycsfAiarhiTHIQYPR0&e= > > List Archives: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.fedoraproject.org_archives_list_epel-2Ddevel-40lists.fedoraproject.org&d=DwIGaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=OAMtP0DWou0nlXG7Kmxo2enjXJfwb1DXS9fwcaESuTE&m=46SEe1P-KfUUtAfirZYHn5ATxfTJ_Q6spfT4LcmtWv44xjf03U3-eLIQq8CkFvza&s=P7pankG6ADB2aNPcSpD1QIXMv1ATMhIvP4ovYevs5rU&e= > > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__pagure.io_fedora-2Dinfrastructure&d=DwIGaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=OAMtP0DWou0nlXG7Kmxo2enjXJfwb1DXS9fwcaESuTE&m=46SEe1P-KfUUtAfirZYHn5ATxfTJ_Q6spfT4LcmtWv44xjf03U3-eLIQq8CkFvza&s=_cTkF9KBrWUy7DX9w20wQNnBshQg2EbgcQKLRhis6qY&e= > _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
