[WBEL-devel] ncurses4

[Johnny Hughes]

I would also think that a main purpose of WBEL is to stay as close as
possible to RHEL as far as packages go ... so that when security issues
arise and RedHat deploys errata SRPMS for RHEL we can deploy them in a
timely manner.

I guess if someone wants to maintain official packages that are older
(on a separate disk) that would be OK, but then that will also have to
be maintained and fixed for errata ... and RedHat probably won't release
any fixes for older packages.  So does WBEL have the capability to
include and maintain errata for packages that are not supported by RHEL?

-Johnny Hughes
 
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 15:36, donavan nelson wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 13:45:47 -0500 (EST), John A. Tamplin wrote
> > If possible, I would like to suggest ncurses4 from the fedora 
> > distribution be included in WBEL and available under the 
> > compatibility libraries section of the install as an optional 
> > package.  I have a number of old commercial applications that need it.
> 
> While I generally see this as a good idea, this pushes the intended purpose of
> WBEL.  I do however believe this would be more suited to an "Extras" type of
> disk.  I'm thinking that WBEL should be as close to the RHEL core as possible.
> 
> Perhaps John will chime in here and offer his thoughts as well (I know several
> others will).