Hi, > I've decided much earlier.. Since EPEL does not play nice with > others, to me EPEL simply does not exists. It's harsh, yes.. It's > my choice.
I agree with you as that choice can be made easily for some, yet some others it's not as easy. I read the links below and although it seemed obvious to me (and anyone else who'd read the thread) what should be done and what Dag / Axel were trying to do, it seems to me the EPEL people _chose_ not to see it that way. After all, if you work off a philosophy of "one repo should provide all packages not part of core" then you'll see it the EPEL way too. In the real world though, working with people typically wins over isolating yourself and not working with people. In the end, EPEL lose, 3rd party repo's lose, and eventually we do to. Regards, Michael. > Regards > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Bram Mertens wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> First of all thank you for providing this repository. > >> > >> Today I was looking for packages for libmcrypt and found one both in > >> RPMforge and in EPEL. > >> > >> I haven't compared the source packages of EPEL and the one from > >> RPMforge but I suspect there will be only minor differences. > >> > >> So to me seems like a duplication of effort and resources that might > >> be invested better in other matters as I'm sure you will all have > >> limited time and resources. > >> > >> Are there any plans to cooperate with the maintainers of the EPEL > >> repository? I read about the conflict with fedora.us and livna.org > >> but nohing about EPEL. And my quick search in the archives of the > >> last couple of months did not reveal anything like this either. > >> > > > > fwiw: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=epel+rpmforge+site%3Awww.redhat.com > > http://www.google.com/search?q=epel+rpmforge+site%3Alists.rpmforge.net > > > > Regards, > > Nicolas > > > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users > > ------- End of Original Message ------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users
