Introduction of overlapping postfix26 package in EPEL-5?

Dodji Seketeli dodji at seketeli.org
Wed Apr 20 15:06:38 UTC 2011


Hello BJ,

BJ Dierkes <wdierkes at 5dollarwhitebox.org> a écrit:

> Let me first introduce to you the IUS Community Project [1].  We
> started this project a year and a half ago to serve this type of
> situation.  For those that are not familiar, we [IUS] maintain a
> repository of packages that explicitly replace packages in RHEL.  So
> where EPEL is an 'add-on' repository and has strict policies about
> conflicting with RHEL...

Thank you for bringing this up.  As was not aware of IUS myself and I am
glad to learn about it.  I have one question though.  Why can't IUS be a
Fedora branch, like EPEL?  Both would be separate, but would still
leverage the (IMHO) wonderful Fedora infrastructure and mindshare.

-- 
		Dodji




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