On 6 November 2010 13:57, Mathieu Baudier mbaudier@argeo.org wrote:
Third-party repos sometimes conflict. For example if you activate both EPEL and RPMForge fully, it is very likely that your perl-* packages will be a complete mess.
That's why I personally followed the approach of enabling EPEL (almost) fully and then include RPMForge packages one by one (see my previous mail)
It could be done the other way around, using primarily RPMForge and then picking up EPEL packages one by one. RPMForge is "stronger" on multimedia, up-to-date versions etc., but EPEL is a Fedora project and many packages have the same maintainer in EPEL and Fedora. So, by using it you stay more in the "Red Hat family", since RHEL (and thus CentOS) releases are based on Fedora.
Thanks, I will keep that in mind. In fact I also had the same problem with Fedora, whereby some Atrpms packages conflicted with those from mainline Fedora or RPM Fusion, so I ended up disabling Atrpms and enabling it only when grabbing individual packages.