On Thu, 1 May 2014 23:52:34 +0200 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 15:02, Jim Perrin wrote: ...snip... > [snip - about kmail] > > > > I guess I have two specific questions for this. > > > > 1. 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. > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064053 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
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