The problem with EPEL is that it's not supported by Redhat, and the packages that reside there are, for want of a better phrase, ephemeral. There are no guarant

The problem with EPEL is that it's not supported by Redhat, and the packages that reside there are, for want of a better phrase, ephemeral. There are no guarantees. If you're after a long term and well supported solution then EPEL probably isn't for you. And the same goes for Fedora, which I personally use, but wouldn't run in production for anything mission critical.