Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 08:47:54 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson <dawson@FNAL.GOV>
Sender: Maillling list for Scientific Linux developers worldwide
> We also still seem to be moving only slowly with respect to "scientific"
> addon software - perhaps it would be worth to see whether the CentOS or
> EPEL fare any better with this? (and perhaps ship with disabled YUM repo
> entries for them)?
>
That's a good idea as well. Find out which repositories from CentOS people
want in.
The one thing I worry about with EPEL is that I have heard that they often are
not compatible with the CentOS, dag, and atrpms repositories. I haven't
confirmed this, just heard it once or twice.