On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > On 04/24/2014 07:03 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Brilliant, but hardly new. I guess the world has changed since the >> lengthy thread around: >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2012-September/008830.html >> >> Funny things happen when different organizations suddenly have the same owner. >> > > I recommend you actually read the thread Les, it might surprise you. How can I be surprised? I wrote some of it - and nothing has changed yet. And I'll stand by my preference that 3rd party repos be included but disabled by default. If you have more than one enabled during updates you are likely to hit conflicts or just slightly incompatible versions of the same package name and leapfrogging versions. EPEL may be a necessary evil, but it doesn't include everything so you'll probably have to make it co-exist with other 3rd party repos. Disabling by default keeps it from causing trouble. But, it is very, very handy to be able to do 'yum --enablerpo=xxx search pattern' without a lot of prior contortions. And likewise for the install when you find the package you want. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com