On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:28 AM, David Hrbáč <david-lists at hrbac.cz> wrote: > Dne 23.1.2012 15:36, Ljubomir Ljubojevic napsal(a): >> All 3rd party repos have their own pace. RepoForge for instance does >> not care what happens in EPEL. I see a need for possible "override of >> certain packages in "master" repository for the "desktop distro" so >> upgrade and install paths are stable. > > So, Epel does so? EPEL's policy is to not replace any upstream packages so there is generally no versioning issue if they are the only additional repo, although they only consider RHEL to be upstream, not centos plus or extras which would be from some perspectives. Sometimes there are good reasons for needing newer, not just additional packages, and sometimes things you need are introduced in some other repo before EPEL and a conflict arises when EPEL adds it or the versions leapfrog each other. I don't think there can ever be a general solution as long as policy restrictions keep things from being managed together. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com