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.