<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I did the last major rewrite of the AdditionalRepos page, in large part because of issues we see repeatedly on the IRC channels. The repos placed in the "known problem" section are there for a good reason -- they replace base packages by default, or they're poorly maintained, leading to security issues. Or both.<br><br></div>Atomic falls squarely into the former category -- it replaces key parts of the base OS with its own packages, and it has broken yum on numerous occasions in the process. While fixable, for most inexperienced users this is difficult and the best way forward is a full reinstall.<br><br></div><div>Any repo that does that, repeatedly, deserves to be placed in that section.<br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 10:59 PM, PatrickD Garvey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrickdgarveyt@gmail.com" target="_blank">patrickdgarveyt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Maybe I posted this a little late on Friday for anyone to take an interest in suggesting a properly built search URL for the current forum software, so I did some experiments which led to the suggestion added below the copy of the previous post.<span class=""><br><br>On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 6:52 PM, I wrote:<br></span><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">> [<a href="https://www.centos.org/search.php?query=atomicorp&mid=30&action=showall&andor=AND" target="_blank">https://www.centos.org/search.php?query=atomicorp&mid=30&action=showall&andor=AND</a> forum search] returns a 404.<br><div dir="ltr"><div>> <br></div>> Can the forum search <a href="https://www.centos.org/forums/search.php" target="_blank">https://www.centos.org/forums/search.php</a>? be used with parameters that will provide the supporting material for the warning "Many CentOS users have had problems after enabling this repo"?<br>> <br><br></div></span><div>My experimentation indicates this URL:<br><a href="https://www.centos.org/forums/search.php?submit=Search&keywords=atomicorp+repo" target="_blank">https://www.centos.org/forums/search.php?submit=Search&keywords=atomicorp+repo</a><br></div><div>returns 13 postings that discuss to use the Atomicorp repo with less than satisfactory results.<br><br></div><div>Do those 13 postings adequately support the admonition to use the Atomicorp repo only with particular care?<br></div>
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