22/06/23 11:06, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 08:44:13AM -0000, Michael J Gruber wrote:
In the specific case of RHEL srpms, it makes life harder for EPEL packagers because you can't look at the source easily when they are problems between RHEL and EPEL packages. It matches well with RH's standard of shipping libraries without headers etc - it is easier for them and limits the scope of support contracts but makes upstream's life harder.
EPEL packagers should have easy access to RHEL through the no-cost subscription program.
Why should we keep contributing to EPEL? To be forced to use 16 free RHEL instances maximum? What is the advantage for us volunteer contributors? I mean, we did not do it for personal advantage, we did it to help us each other within the Enterprise Linux distros community, but this Red Hat move will kill the Enterprise Linux distros community, leaving only with RHEL, which is mostly a paid subscription distribution, let's call things with their proper name