Paul Johnson wrote:
This is entirely correct. Like many, I have been in dependency hell because of repo mistakes. Please create a more direct way for new users to protect themselves. We used to caution people, but that's insufficient now. It should be in the base install. I'd say it should be centos priority 1.
My recommendation would be to enable only the epel and nux-dextop repos. If you add any other third party repos, have them be disabled. My experience has been that epel and nux-dextop do not cause dependency issues, and between the two they provide almost everything I want.
Don't be surprised if they don't change anything in the base install. Remember that the whole point of CentOS is to provide a system almost identical to what the upstream source provides.
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