If a group of people want it, you could also maintain it as an EPEL package...
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 11:15 AM Miles O'Neal <[email protected]> wrote: > What happened to the SL contrib directories? > > > On 09/03/2015 10:13 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Well it comes down to server vs desktop. > Keep in mind that TUV for SL is RHEL which is meant to be a business server > distro. Kstars is a great application for a desktop but has no place on a > server. > Back before RHEL 6 Red Hat tried to push an "Enterprise Desktop" variant of > RHEL which included a lot of Desktop applications and was missing a lot of > the server applications. RHEL AS (Advanced Server) included every thing from > both the server and desktop variants, at the time that is was what SL was > built off of. Now Red Hat doesn't push the Enterprise Desktop version as much > as they use too because it never caught on as well as they hoped, furthermore > they minimized what they included in it to strictly what developers asked for > no more no less. As for EPEL any thing can be added assuming some one is > willing to maintain the packages, and you can get a fedora project shepard > (kindof like a project manager) to sign off on it. > > Original Message > From: Alec T. Habig > Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 09:20 > To: Efraim Yawitz > Cc: Mailing list for Scientific Linux users worldwide > Subject: Re: kstars > > Efraim Yawitz writes: > > Why is kstars no longer part of Scientific Linux? I'm still using 5.4 > which has this wonderful and small planetarium program. Why was it > removed from later versions? > > > doesn't directly answer your question, but I use xephem: but have had to > roll my own rpm for many releases now. Just compiling a new version now > as I use it for my intro astronomy course (for making current starfields > etc for my lectures). > > Over time, non-core programs come and go from TUV repository, which > composes 99% of all the packages in SL, and which the SL maintainers > have no control. You can find many of the things you'd like in a > supplemental repository like EPEL (unfortunately, neither kstars nor > xephem): if there's a critical mass of people who want the the thing. > But sometimes you just gotta do the old fashioned thing and compile it > yourself :( > > > > > -- > Miles O'Neal > CAD Systems Engineer > Cirrus Logic | cirrus.com | 1.512.851.4659 >
