Am 24.01.2013 um 21:27 schrieb James Freer jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Leon Fauster leonfauster@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 22.01.2013 um 23:03 schrieb James Freer jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com:
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
puias... sorry i overlooked that. Clear enough now. I'll use the epel and rpmforge repos and see how i get on.
i do not recommend to use this two repos simultaniuous (or use priorities!). LF
hmmm - well what is one supposed to do? I've got EPEL installed fine but that doesn't have abiword, pyrenamer and some of the the other... fairly standard apps. I turned to Centos after Fedora has proved to be a bit dodgy. Centos along with debian are supposed to be the TWO main community distros. If rpmforge shouldn't be installed (as you've advised) it seems i need to look at another distro. The advice is to stay with a distro's developer packages and only use other repo if one really has to. I can only assume that Centos really is for Server use rather than desktop... i was just hoping to use it as a desktop before moving onto the server route.
the choices leads to the problem called hick's law :-)
but seriously i do not want to dive into the discussion of the different repository goals. [1] should explain all what you need and i am sure that CentOS is great as a desktop OS! I can suggest it because my primary requirement is maturity and long-term support. Just try it (e.g. only with rpmforge enabled).
[1] http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
-- LF