[users] Re: [packagers] The demise of the repotag

[Rex Dieter]

Dag Wieers wrote:

> As I expected and briefed before, Fedora and EPEL will not adopt a 
> repotag.

True, fact (for now).

imo, the vote on the issue was denied mostly due to
* the issue was ill-posed, and many folks felt the vote was rushed
prematurely.
* without a well-posed, documented issue to vote on, many folks voted
no, not seeing any technical justification.  Considering most of the
justifications *for* repotags were non-technical, that didn't bode well.

> With that they refuse to accept or consider the existence of a 
> diversity of repositories, or at least promote themselves to be the one 
> and only upstream provider of packages.
...
> Now as stated multiple times on the EPEL mailinglist, Fedora/EPEL 
> considers itself as the only big repository for EL despite the fact that 
> they are the newcomer.

Please don't go making accusations and guessing at motivations here.

Now, here is one more fact:  Whether you want to believe it or not,
Fedora (and EPEL) not only believes 3rd part repo
coordination/cooperation is a good idea, it is a matter of documented
procedure/policy.

-- Rex