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

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On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 14:33 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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.)

There is no fallback for rich dependencies. There is no fallback for
filetriggers.

> 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

I'm definitely not against supporting EPEL, but right now it is hurting me that
much that I don't do that.
- -- 
- -Igor Gnatenko
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