Re: epel-playground.repo installed by epel8 version of epel-release package?

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On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 2:13 PM Merlin Mathesius <mmathesi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 3:40 PM Troy Dawson <tdawson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> That's how I enable epel8-playground, as does anyone who currently
>> used KDE on RHEL8.
>> (I honestly don't know how many are using kde from epel8, so I have no
>> idea how large that number is)
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>> Do we have documentation on how to use epel8-playground if you remove this file?
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> There doesn't seem to be much documentation about enabling/using the epel8-playground repo at all. However, my web searches turned up a few references about using the dnf --enablerepo=epel-playground install ... method to grab experimental packages.
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Sounds like we need to leave it where it is.

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>> Troy
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>> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 1:09 PM Merlin Mathesius <mmathesi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> > Greetings.
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>> > This was discussed a bit in the #epel channel, but it was suggested I take it to the list...
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>> > While adding the epel-modular.repo file to the epel8 branch of the epel-release package, I noticed that the package was installing /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-playground.repo (although with enabled=0)--which seemed a little out of place.
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>> > The question came up whether the epel8 version of the epel-release package should be installing that repo file at all, or whether it should be completely dropped and only be installed by the epel8-playground version of the epel-release package.
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>> > Are there any opinions about dropping the epel-playground.repo file from the epel8 branch of the epel-release package? Or leave it as is?
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>> > I can see one potential use case where someone could run dnf --enablerepo=epel-playground update epel-release as a way to switch from the standard to playground repos.
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>> > Merlin
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