Unstable EPEL? (frequent package updates)

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jul 2 14:56:11 UTC 2008


Miguel Filho wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com> wrote:
>> A small addition here; RHEL does so by releasing a minor update to the
>> entire operating system (5.2) - so everyone knows to look for changes like
>> these. Is this something EPEL can do as well?
>>
>> EPEL 5.1/nethack-3.4.3
>>
>> EPEL 5.2/nethack-4.0 (for the right reasons)
>>
> 
> That is exactly my point on another mail I sent to this list. A
> repository that don't follow the RHEL release is just a no go to me.

Well since there isn't any third party reposiory following the EL 
release model, it makes sense to explain why you need such a model. 
Simply demanding that it should be done without providing a good 
explanation isn't really motivating anybody.

Rahul




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