Re: [CentOS] CentosPlus

On 2016-05-17 15:51, Mauricio Tavares wrote:

  Why not leave all the extra repos disabled, say

sed -i -e 's/^enabled=1/enabled=0/' /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

and manually enable it when you need to get a package from said repo:

yum install -y libmcrypt --enablerepo=epel

Hello Mauricio,

I understand. For systems with a few packages from Epel this is my favored technique. Epel has a lot more packages that overlap or interact with base repo packages, if I'm not mistaken. But for my CentOSPlus repository use case, I leave the repo enabled in the config file; forgetting to re-enable it could leave these systems without neccessary drivers. As the repository contents is desired _in total_ over the base packages, there's no down side for this use.