Thank you BJ for following up on this,
BJ Dierkes <wdierkes(a)5dollarwhitebox.org> a écrit:
On Apr 20, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Dodji Seketeli wrote:
> 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.
We did have that very discussion in #fedora-meeting over a year ago,
and at the time it was decided that... EPEL itself has enough
challenges in packaging and maintaining itself that adding another
repo was just not in the cards. Ultimately we decided any packagers
interested should participate in IUS and that merging IUS under Fedora
Project wasn't feasible at the time.
OK. Good to know. At least the topic got discussed.
We [IUS] are certainly open to talks regarding this topic of having
an
'IUS' repo under Fedora (that sits next to EPEL)... which I think is a
better conversation than allowing IUS type packages in EPEL.
I think having an IUS repo under Fedora that sits next to EPEL is the
right to do as well, barring of course the possible practical
difficulties that it would imply.
Perhaps a topic for next epel meeting. My only concern with that
is... IUS has a pretty niche audience, and a very specific purpose in
the grand scheme of things. Fedora/EPEL would really need to weight
the pros and cons on whether it makes sense to go down that path or
not.
Indeed.
Thank you for sharing this insight.
--
Dodji