Les Mikesell wrote:
Michael A. Peters wrote:
How it interacts with epel I don't really care about, but it should not update vendor packages, and anything that requires an updated vendor package will be broken on yum configurations that protect the base install.
I think you've confused rpmforge with something else. If you are happy with a base install you probably shouldn't be using it.
I only use rpmforge for a few packages, I use priorities and it is set to lowest. I think my nvidia driver is from them, and one dependency I need for xine non-free (private package) I think is from them. I use to maintain my own nvidia driver via the old kmod rebuild every update method but their packaging was superior.
I don't know what rpmforge has in general, I was just replying to the comment about needing to update python in order to get a package to build. Python really should not be updated. Parallel install OK, but updating the system python is asking for a fubar system.
If rpmforge does not do that, then it clearly isn't an issue.