Howdy folks -
I just moved my laptop from Fedora to CentOS. FC6 was running rather sweet, then they decided to EOL it, and F8 - while it had some nice new features, it was just way to quirky for me. I no longer enjoy re-installing the OS quite so often, hence my move to CentOS.
So I installed CentOS 5 on my laptop, and built a bunch of packages, making "yet another" repo for CentOS.
These are primarily straight rebuilds (in mock) of Fedora 8 source rpm's - taking care to avoid anything that conflicts with or replaces CentOS packages.
I know there are a dozen or so addon repos already - and if you are happy with them, stick with them.
My goal was to stay as close to Fedora 8 packaging for these addon packages as possible, benefiting from their packaging guidelines, and also to not replace the stable very well tested CentOS packages.
[yjl-misc] does not replace any CentOS packages and has stuff from F8 everything like AbiWord, Gnumeric, Bluefish, BitTorrent, etc. as well as some multimedia related libraries.
[yjl-livna] has rebuilds of stuff from rpm.livna.org - mostly multimedia related, including xine and totem-xine. Depends on [yjl-misc].
[yjl-php] has php 5.2.5 and does replace the CentOS php, it should probably only be used if something you are doing requires php 5.2.x.
For those interested: http://www.pennywasted.info/centos/yjl.php