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Jeff,

Thanks for the comments. As far as assistance, what we really need are users and feedback. The naming convention of packages (php to php52, etc) is explained in our FAQ (http://iuscommunity.org/faq), however the primary purpose is keeping packages from IUS obviously separate from RHEL (and so they don't interfere with RHEL). Providing updated packages named 'php' would mean subscribing to the IUS repo you'd automatically update to our packages. We value explicit over implicit and don't want anything to upgrade unless the user makes the required changes.

As far as EPEL we feel this is a perfect combination of repositories. EPEL does not upgrade or conflict with any packages in RHEL so there should not be any packages that are updating inadvertently unless the update is in EPEL for an EPEL package. We want to make IUS accessible alongside EPEL, rather than duplicating efforts with EPEL.

Thank you for the solid feedback!