On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 10:36:11AM +0800, Christopher Meng wrote:
So I believe it's worthwhile to add some notes on EPEL page to alert the incompatibility.
Something along the lines of: "EPEL is built on unmodified RHEL, and will generally work on close rebuilds like CentOS. EPEL packages may not work on distributions like Amazon Linux, which sometimes makes significant changes."
In the future, if CentOS "varients" catch on, this could be expanded to note that those won't necessarily work either.