Bryan J Smith wrote:
... That now begs the question if the EL Rebuilds will now just stop building them since they are available in EPEL? If so, now Fedora EPEL becomes the concentrator for EL Rebuilds. ... Expectations are extremely fluid here and I see much harm to the entire community-sustaining engineering duality ... ...
Understand at some point I'm feeling I'm "alone" in many viewpoints and wonder if I should bother any further. I'm surprised many are not seeing my point, but maybe this final attempt will clear it up.
In all of these posts that I have responded to, in countless scenarios put forth, I'm seeing one party ignored over and over, and the only one always ignored.
The paying Red Hat customer who helps fund the sustaining engineering.
In many cases where EPEL build and ships Red Hat packages, even entire add-ons -- things that were in AS/AP, things that were in CentOS Extras, etc... -- the "EL Rebuilds" can just move to ship the EPEL packages instead of having to build their own independent.
So if you are on just a base Red Hat entitlement, or with an EL Rebuild that moves to remove duplications with EPEL, you have no conflicts. But if you are a paying Red Hat customer with add-ons, and many are, you conflict.
Which goes back to my original issue ...
Marginalizing the paying Red Hat customer in the Fedora Project, putting them clearly at the back-of-the-line, which is only self-defeating for the Fedora Project in general.
I think I've beat this like a dead horse at this point.
-- Bryan J Smith - Professional, Technical Annoyance