On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 22:01 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > Well, we know this happens anyway, just people are pulling (and > rebuilding) packages from all sorts of random locations. Oh, I wholly agree this is drastically improved. The Fedora standards and processes are much, much better than your typical "oh, it built" attitude of select RPMForge/3rd Party repositories. > EPEL is actually a great way for a consultant to help a company get a > desired package available. One of the reasons for this "standard job > description": > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/PackageMaintainer/GenericJobDescription An EPEL package could become stale or otherwise cause an update to fail, etc... Especially if it is a dependency for another EPEL package that is still being maintained, etc... Now I understand there are no "alternative" packages to what is in RHEL and no RHEL package can be replaced or dependent on a EPEL package. But there's still that issue. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance mailto:b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx http://thebs413.blogspot.com -------------------------------------------------------- Fission Power: An Inconvenient Solution -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
