EPEL6 announcement feedback

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Tue Jan 18 16:32:50 UTC 2011


On 01/18/2011 04:54 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 03:36:17PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:00:51 +0530
>> Rahul Sundaram<metherid at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> I would suggest:
>>>
>>> EPEL 6 packages is a complimentary and compatible add-on repository
>>> and provides additional packages for RHEL 6 or compatible rebuilds
>>> and does not replace any RHEL 6 packages.  EPEL is a community
>>> project maintained and supported by volunteers (via bugzilla and
>>> mailing lists) as part of the Fedora Project and is not commercially
>>> supported by Red Hat.
>>
>> Sounds good to me. :)
>
> Englishy wordsmithing:
>
> The collection of EPEL 6 packages is a complementary and compatible
> add-on repository for RHEL 6 or compatible rebuilds.  It provides
> additional packages and does not replace any RHEL 6 packages.  EPEL is
> a community project, maintained and supported by volunteers via
> Bugzilla and mailing lists.  It is part of the Fedora Project and is
> not commercially supported by Red Hat.


We should use "supplementary" instead of "complementary". There's a 
subtle difference in the meanings: the former connotes that a thing is 
additional to the whole, whereas the latter connotes that the whole is 
not complete without the thing.

Also, "Red Hat, Inc."?


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