On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 3:40 PM Troy Dawson <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's how I enable epel8-playground, as does anyone who currently
> used KDE on RHEL8.
> (I honestly don't know how many are using kde from epel8, so I have no
> idea how large that number is)
>
> Do we have documentation on how to use epel8-playground if you remove this
> file?
>

There doesn't seem to be much documentation about enabling/using the
epel8-playground repo at all. However, my web searches turned up a few
references about using the dnf --enablerepo=epel-playground install ...
method to grab experimental packages.


> Troy
>
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 1:09 PM Merlin Mathesius <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings.
> >
> > This was discussed a bit in the #epel channel, but it was suggested I
> take it to the list...
> >
> > While adding the epel-modular.repo file to the epel8 branch of the
> epel-release package, I noticed that the package was installing
> /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-playground.repo (although with enabled=0)--which
> seemed a little out of place.
> >
> > The question came up whether the epel8 version of the epel-release
> package should be installing that repo file at all, or whether it should be
> completely dropped and only be installed by the epel8-playground version of
> the epel-release package.
> >
> > Are there any opinions about dropping the epel-playground.repo file from
> the epel8 branch of the epel-release package? Or leave it as is?
> >
> > I can see one potential use case where someone could run dnf
> --enablerepo=epel-playground update epel-release as a way to switch from
> the standard to playground repos.
> >
> > Merlin
> >
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