On Thu, 1 May 2014 23:52:34 +0200 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik@greysector.net wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 15:02, Jim Perrin wrote:
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I guess I have two specific questions for this.
- Can epel track and provide the same source versions of packages
that RH provides for RHEL? 2. Is the demand worth the effort?
I'd be interested in the pidgin package. However, current package in RHEL7 disables Gadu-gadu support in libpurple, which is a deal-breaker for me. I filed a bug[1] about it, but if it's not fixed, I'll be rolling my own packages anyway.
I think the way to go here would be for epel to ship parallel installable versions of those things. This would decouple them from trying to keep matching rhel exactly.
However, I don't know how hard this will be to actually do in practice. It might end up being way too much effort. ;(
kevin