On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 22:38, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com> wrote:
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:22:58 -0600
Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net> wrote:
> > b) 1 month after RHEL6 was released.
>
> Is there a particular reason to wait? Is specific additional testing
> being done, with results being used to determine overall status?
No, but now the final list of available packages is known and versions,
so people can decide what EPEL version of something they can build and
support for the next 7 years. Some packages, like fftw were in limbo or
not available, so now those folks that needed that package can build
out their apps.
After doing this for 4 years.. I think that for the small number of
people we have the idea that we can support without resources packages
for 7 years without major updates is wishful thinking. We have a ton
of packages that get updated almost as much as rawhide already :/.
However that is really a different topic and I am a grumpy old man
with bursitis at the moment.
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