Repotag

[Rex Dieter]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>> Dag Wieers wrote:
>>
>>> I know you guys think you have enough authority to not require a repotag.
>> authority has nothing to do with it.  Point is: is it a good or necessary
>> thing?
> 
> Well, the discussions have proven that EPEL considers itself upstream.
> And that a multi repository world is not wanted.

imo, not true and irrelevant to boot.  Anyone saying otherwise is 
selling something.  And I'm not buying it.

Please don't let the voices of a select few speak for all of EPEL.

>>> And you generally do not care because the default policy will be to tell
>>> people other packages than EPEL are dangerous.

>> imo, you're making a false assumption here.

> That is what happened with Fedora Extras. RPMforge has been badmouthed 
> because it was not upstream and a lot of FUD has been spread.

That's in the past, *long* past.  Again, not true anymore, yada yada.


Please, since repotags aren't a blocker for you, can we *please* try to 
focus on the more-important issues that are?

-- Rex