[CentOS] are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

[Jim Perrin]

On Dec 4, 2007 1:12 PM, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> Following Fabian's blog post re: RPMForge being rebuilt for EL5, I've a
> question:
>
> Are there any compatibility problems between RPMForge and EPEL? In other
> words, if I enabled EPEL previously, will I be able to enable RPMForge
> as well without running into trouble?

RPMForge and EPEL have several conflicting packages, so yes you may
run into trouble.

EPEL has stated that playing nicely with other repos is not a goal of
theirs. I would consider them a 'single source' repo. If you're using
them, don't use any other 3rd party repos.

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