Re: EPEL thoughts or views on packages deliberately left out of rhel?

2014-05-02 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 1 May 2014 23:52:34 +0200 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski domi...@greysector.net 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

Re: EPEL thoughts or views on packages deliberately left out of rhel?

2014-05-01 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 15:02, Jim Perrin wrote: On 04/29/2014 10:43 PM, s...@shk.io wrote: On 2014-04-30 06:57, Jim Perrin wrote: The RC for el7 specifically omits packages that have drawn interest in the past. A few examples of such packages would be kmail and pidgin. kmail

EPEL thoughts or views on packages deliberately left out of rhel?

2014-04-29 Thread Jim Perrin
The RC for el7 specifically omits packages that have drawn interest in the past. A few examples of such packages would be kmail and pidgin. kmail is ordinarily part of the kde-pim suite, but is stripped from the final build via some 'rm' handiwork in the spec. Pidgin is omitted from the build via

Re: EPEL thoughts or views on packages deliberately left out of rhel?

2014-04-29 Thread s
On 2014-04-30 06:57, Jim Perrin wrote: The RC for el7 specifically omits packages that have drawn interest in the past. A few examples of such packages would be kmail and pidgin. kmail is ordinarily part of the kde-pim suite, but is stripped from the final build via some 'rm' handiwork in the