On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Marcus Moeller wrote:
I have been using RPMforge much longer than EPEL and only have a few packages from EPEL on my 5.3 (32 bit) desktop. When I added the EPEL Repository to Priorities, the number of packages excluded went from approximately 400 to 1705. My belief is that had I not given EPEL a very low priority, it would have replaced approximately 1300 packages. Probably those whose priority is to have the latest and greatest should be using another distro (Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.). The philosophy behind Enterprise Distros is stability and security and long life, not having the latest and greatest packages.
There was a time where CentOS contrib repo has been announced. It was meant to be a package source for 'community-contributed' packages. So why not just merge stable RPMForge packages over there and start a 'semi-official' CentOS orientated repository from the scratch.
I am all for a solution, but unless it already works I would not call it a solution, but a short-term (and possibly long-term) risk.