On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs> wrote: > > >> I'm not thinking of largely different files, I'm thinking of files >> that depend very closely on each other and need to be constrained to >> update together - perhaps from repos managed separately. >> > > So in your opinion, no Variants should be created, or everyone should > duplicate the packages they use like it is done now. Got it. > No, in my opinion both of those would be less than optimal. As would arranging things so they will break unpredictably. But, as far as I can tell, holding the repository version to the version you want deployed is the only way to control yum. I've always thought that was inefficient even in the context of testing against your own local applications. Maybe someone will have a better idea. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com