Keep or remove GlusterFS from EPEL-6?

Karsten 'quaid' Wade kwade at redhat.com
Thu May 24 06:40:56 UTC 2012


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On 05/23/2012 02:18 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> The issue is that if EPEL pulls out core packages every time Red 
> Hat decides to offer a sub-channel of supported, then there is no 
> need for EPEL since it will get gutted regularly. At this point we 
> are looking at 1/3->1/2 of EPEL having to be removed because 
> packages require or buildrequire items that are included in
> layered products that would no longer be available to build
> against. Which leads me to my first statement, that the usability
> of EPEL to a layered user is much less than a base OS user.

Sorry if I've missed this answered elsewhere, but why don't the RHEL
layered products use e.g. Puppet from EPEL instead of bundling it?

- - Karsten
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