I’m currently running AlmaLinux 8.x and 9.x (besides Rocky Linux 8.x and 9.x).
I’m slowly starting to experiment with the 10.0 release. For now I have two questions.
Where’s Ansible ? On 8.x and 9.x I just use EPEL and then dnf install ansible which pulls in an out of the box usable installation of Ansible. There seems to be no equivalent in 10.0. Does that mean the EPEL project still has to wrap its head around it and build it? Or do things work differently under 10.0 ?
What about X.org ? I understand Red Hat has decided to go for Wayland as default. Will X.org and related packages still be available from some third party project under 10.0 ?
The core parts of Ansible are in package ansible-core in AppStream of el8, el9, and el10.
What EPEL adds is collections. Yes, some of them are likely to be used by common tasks. Both EPEL 10.0 and 10.1 do have ansible-collection-community-general
Technically, it is possible to download collections with ansible-galaxy, but that is obviously a “source install”.
EPEL can be requested to (re)build more collections for el10 target.
X11 is some four decades old. Two decades ago somebody deemed that it is easier to write from scratch than duct-tape X11. That “new” thing is Wayland. Wayland does have XWayland, so X11 applications ought to be happy with it. Ideally, focus would be on making everything (Wayland implementation, GPU drivers, applications) work with Wayland.