Red Hat Launches New Package Repository for Enterprise Linux

[Karsten Wade]

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 08:55 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> I know.  At the same time, if I was a Red Hat consultant on client site,
> I wouldn't have to deal with the pressure of a SLA only to find out
> there was breakage caused by EPEL.  I'm not saying EPEL will "break,"
> but from the "anal power," there is that "risk."

Well, we know this happens anyway, just people are pulling (and
rebuilding) packages from all sorts of random locations.

EPEL is actually a great way for a consultant to help a company get a
desired package available.  One of the reasons for this "standard job
description":

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/PackageMaintainer/GenericJobDescription

- Karsten
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