Re: a diversion into EPEL [was Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like]

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On Dec 9, 2016 5:18 PM, "Matthew Miller" <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 11:07:32AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Anyways, in the big picture, while I don't speak for everyone on
> > the Project Atomic side, I personally point users at CentOS first,
> > unless I have some reason to think they want Fedora. Something like
> > 80% of Fedora usage hitting the mirrors was desktop systems, right?
> > I don't expect that to change personally.
> Although..except for EPEL.  And how EPEL works should obviously be
> part of this. Things would feel clearer if EPEL lived in CentOS now
> perhaps.

Right; in mirror traffic, EPEL is to Fedora Workstation as Workstation
is to Server. :)

EPEL packages *are* Fedora packages, though — moving the project to
CentOS isn't completely crazy, but would require a lot more integration
and cooperation between the projects.

That's something I'd like to see anyway. I think there are a lot of
opportunities for this with containers and modularity — if you can just
run Fedora containers on CentOS or RHEL *directly*, why bother
rebuilding them? For a lot of the software that's in EPEL, that's
completely sufficient. For other software, where users would like the
version to match more closely the long lifecycle, maybe there could be
a hand-off from Fedora version to CentOS version.
Don't know how modularity is related here. It's just about building distro. Containers, yeah, but please don't kill Fedora. I don't want to run container for each software I use. RHEL and CentOS people can struggle, but don't do this with Fedora users.



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