Mike McGrath (mmcgrath(a)redhat.com) said:
Should we have a stronger effort to replace older RHEL packages if we
put
them in their own namespace and don't conflict?
This is sort of a nuanced problem since RHEL5 doesn't feel nearly as old
as RHEL4 did at this point in it's release cycle. But still, people do
want newer versions of these packages.
This seems like a good way to fracture the platform to me; sure, someone
may want a new MySQL, in isolation, but I'm not sure it really helps from
a long term-standpoint if other EPEL packages would then have to worry about
working with 3 versions of MySQL.
Bill