On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 09:34:27AM +0000, LAHAYE Olivier wrote:
> Unfortunately, I've discovered with centos-8 that many (I really mean MANY)
> packages have been dropped by redhat

Yes, that happens.

> and epel as well.

EPEL did not drop anything. EPEL for a new RHEL always starts with an empty
repository. Any package appears there must be actively requested and packaged.

> redhat dropped docbook-utils-pdf for example (while keeping docbook-utils)
> which I rely on to build the manual.
>
Either buy a RHEL subscription and report a request to Red Hat, or ask EPEL
packagers to package docbook-utils-pdf from the docbook-utils RHEL sources.

> EPEL-8 has dropped xmlstarlet,

File a request to Fedora Bugzilla for adding it.

> perl-Qt

perl-Qt is deader than a dead horse. It requires other libraries that
cannot be even built and many distributions including Fedora and Debian
removed it. Please use a different GUI toolkit.

-- Petr

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