Orion Poplawski <orion(a)cora.nwra.com> writes:
> Why COPR instead of EPEL?
>
> EPEL is part of Fedora package git tree, all extra stuff from Fedora is
> available in one place...
>
> For me COPR is good solution for tests before package lands in Fedora (or
> EPEL).
Oh yeah, I already maintain quite a lot for EPEL. However, EPEL guidelines
forbid major/disruptive updates, so this would be for such things as Octave 4.
[The guidelines are a bit of a laugh in this area when faced with the
el6 MPI mess and then, for instance, scalapack being disruptively
updated :-(.]
The other obvious reason to use copr is the difficulty/pain of getting
useful things into EPEL and policy which bans kernel module packaging,
for instance.