On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
00:40:41 < dgilmore> | i noticed that dag made some
derogatory comments about epel on the centos mailing list
00:40:51 < quaid> | oh, good
00:40:58 < quaid> | nothing quite like keeping the flames warm
00:41:01 < dgilmore> | saying that we dont want to work with him
00:41:12 < quaid> | in fact
-snip-
00:42:05 < quaid> | it's hard because these guys all
had good points
00:42:15 < quaid> | but they put way too much heat into it
00:42:29 < quaid> | and burned the bridge before it could be built
00:42:45 < quaid> | anyway, water under the ... oh, wait, nevermind
00:42:49 < knurd> | we maybe should some carefully choose words into the
wiki
00:42:55 < knurd> | why we didn#t go for repotags
-snip-
My statements are *NOT* about repotags. Repotags would not provide
compatibility, but repotags would help cope with incompatibility.
Nevertheless, my statements had nothing to do with repotags.
00:43:03 < dgilmore> |
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-July/083569.html
00:43:04 < quaid> | a good FAQ entry
00:43:08 < knurd> | and that we suggest that our contributors cooperate
I stand by that statement. There is no interest from EPEL to work together
with other repositories. The policy is to be the one and only single
repository for RHEL/CentOS.
EPEL is in its right to go for that, but that should be advertised.
Instead what is happening is that EPEL is claiming that 'their
contributors cooperate'. Much like Fedora Extras in the past claimed this.
If Fedora Extras did cooperate, their may not have been any
compatibilities and who knows, there may not have been an RPMforge, or an
ATrpms today.
Nevertheless, if someone would say exactly that
"EPEL is not interested in compatibility with other repositories"
or even
"EPEL claims it is impossible to achieve compatibility with 3rd party
repositories"
He is starting a flameware ? Is being derogatory ?
I can understand that EPEL wants to hide this fact from the public, or
create another perception.
But EPEL is being dishonest about its intentions to lure packagers and
users.
Kind regards,
-- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com,
http://dag.wieers.com/ --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]