On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:23:48 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > You're going to have to expound on that. I do not see Centos in any > > way as in competition with Fedora. > > EPEL drains away resources from Fedora. I wish it were like that. EPEL is just another build target. It's a dumping-ground for Fedora pkg spec files. It's getting filled with trial-and-error builds. Just observe how many build deps are missing, the build jobs fail, and the packager strips a spec till it builds. With no evidence that the packagers spend much time on EPEL that is missing elsewhere -- it's not as if they do back-porting or similar work where Fedora Legacy failed due to lack of man-power/volunteers. Version upgrades are done in EPEL in the same careless way as in Fedora, except that this road will lead to a dead end somewhere, because EPEL and RHEL are separately controlled and developed. [We've had similar cases with Fedora Extras before, where upgrades in Core became necessary.] -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
