[ale] Spam: Re: LTS doesn't always mean LTS

[dev null zero two]

just an aside, DJ: I'm pretty sure "apt" has superseded aptitude _and_
apt-get now.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:49 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:37 AM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
> > Being "supported" is a major consideration for me. If many of the pkgs
> > that I use (and I'm not a pkg whore) are not, moving to another distro
> > is the easiest solution.  Of course, then the question becomes whether
> > "supported" really means anything on the other distros too.  Cannot say
> > today.  On RHEL - adding epel ... does that break the same stuff?
>
>
> I use epel on all of the systems I manage. The nice thing about epel
> is they specifically do NOT add packages that are maintained in the
> base OS repositories, and everything is linked against the base
> environment. And the epel locks the major version of their packages
> once the repository leaves "beta". They also issue errata that can be
> tracked and managed via Satellite.
>
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