On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Mark Chappell <tremble(a)tremble.org.uk> wrote:
On 24 May 2012 08:40, Karsten 'quaid' Wade
<kwade(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> 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?
Because then Red Hat would end up trying to support packages that it
didn't build or control the release cycles for, which would make QA a
nightmare and bring many extra headaches for the Support teams.
And it's clearly documented in EPEL FAQ
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#Is_EPEL_commercially_supported_by_...
Cheers,
Alan