Re: EPEL support in "master" branch (aka speeding up Fedora development)

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On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 02:23:16PM +0100, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
> What I'm trying to say here is that each time we want to implement
> some feature in Fedora, we either need to have some replacement in
> EPEL or diverge Fedora branches from EPEL branches. Having
> replacement is not always possible, especially if we start utilizing
> new (actually 8 years old) features of RPM.

I'd really like to see us tend towards coming up with macros that
provide elegant fallbacks on EPEL. (The %license macro is a good
example.)

I get the frustration with older stuff holding us back, but we really
have a _lot_ of users who get value from doing so.
https://twitter.com/mattdm/status/936243506355621888

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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader
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