On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Troy Dawson wrote:
Looks like we didn't get enough testing done, and maybe rrdtool doesn't
really need to be in the plain SL release.
I have no problem pulling it out of the release and having people just
install it from dag or EPEL, whichever they prefer. Since it hasn't gotten
into any final release, this isn't that much of a problem, I just need to
take it out of the repositories.
Does anyone *really* need it in the release? Is there any real reasons why
people can't get it from dag and/or EPEL after they are installed?
Troy
p.s. Just so you know, we didn't test it with every EPEL package. When I
said that "these packages are compatible with both epel and dag" I was
meaning the rrdtool package. It was packaged in the EPEL fashion and naming
convention, with provides statements so that it worked and updated corrected
with the dag repository.
If these packages *need* the particular version of rrdtool
I suggest that it might not be ready for an SL release.
If they only have tight dependencies because the package build
put precise version into the package, then those packages
ought to be remade.
So no, I don't feel that SL needs to have rrdtool.
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