On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 4:05 PM Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 01:16:47PM -0500, Merlin Mathesius wrote: > > I was asked to draft a plan stating what EPEL 8 should do regarding > > Software Collections. The draft I came up with is included below. > > Looks good to me. +1 here. > > > EPEL Steering Committee: Please ratify this plan or provide feedback as > > necessary. When it's ready, and I will prepare a PR for this to land in > > https://pagure.io/epel/blob/master/f/docs/source > > That would be great... >
Thanks! Anyone else? I went ahead and created https://pagure.io/epel/pull-request/81 Merlin > kevin > -- > > > > Regards, > > > > Merlin > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > > > *Regarding EPEL and Software Collections* > > *Background* > > > > For RHEL 8, Red Hat made the decision to provide multiple versions of > > software in the form of App Stream modules instead of Red Hat Software > > Collections (RHSCLs). > > > > SCLs are maintained by the CentOS Software Collections SIG, not the EPEL > > SIG. > > > > RHEL 8 comes with the scl-utils and scl-utils-build packages--which > contain > > tools for using and building SCLs. These packages appear to function as > > expected with RHEL 8 and CentOS 8. > > > > *Recommendations* > > > > EPEL will not provide SCL support, although it will not prohibit use of > the > > SCL tools provided with RHEL 8. > > > > EPEL will not provide any SCLs. > > > > EPEL encourages the community to follow Red Hat’s lead and provide > multiple > > versions of software for RHEL 8 and CentOS 8 in the form of modules > rather > > than SCLs. > > > > For use cases that require the parallel installation of multiple versions > > of the same component, EPEL recommends the same solution as RHEL 8: > > containers. > > > > ------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > > epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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