Bug 253130

Summary:	user request for wvware in RHEL
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	J Robinson <jrobinson852>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	5.0	CC:	syeghiay
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Description J Robinson 2007-08-17 01:54:51 UTC

User request for wvware to be included in RHEL
(it is included in FC6, and all its prerequisites
are in RHEL5)

Is there some explanation of why it was not included, to help
developers and interested users to possible help get it 
included in RHEL? 

Thanks.

Comment 1 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-08-21 05:36:00 UTC

User pnasrat's account has been closed

Comment 2 David Cantrell 2011-01-18 14:44:56 UTC

RHEL does not automatically include every package from Fedora.  Some packages are left out if they are deemed unnecessary, redundant, or out of scope for RHEL.

There is a wv2 package available in EPEL:
    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

In general, it's easier to get packages added to EPEL repositories than it is to RHEL.