>> epel is the best large 3rd party repo in terms of avoiding conflicts
>> with the base.
>>
>
> Yeah, I noticed that with rpmforge. I was just under the impression that
> epel was a bit "dodgy" as repos come. Never too late to be enlightened
> though. ;-)
>
the following is my opinion, and nothing else:
epel doesn't use a repository tag in their RPM names. this makes it
hard to use with other repositories.
