On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:50 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've built an environment-modules based gcc-5.3.1 for RHEL6 that lives 
> side-by-side with vendor packages - it installs to /opt/ and has a 
> name{version} scheme to avoid conflicts, which I'd like to include in EPEL6.
>
> In accordance with the guidelines 
> (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#Still_unsure_if_a_package_is_fine_for_EPEL.3F)
>  I'm asking here if this is appropriate or, if not, how can I modify it so 
> gcc-5 can make it into EPEL.
>
> I can provide a working srpm for both binutils2.26 and gcc5.3.1 (the binutils 
> is required, and also builds to /opt and enabled via modules).

This sounds very much like a software collection (SCL) and I don't
believe we have a agreed policy on how that is done for EPEL (see list
archives)
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