On 01/17/2014 02:29 PM, Trevor Hemsley wrote: > On 17/01/14 12:25, Jim Perrin wrote: >> On 01/16/2014 06:12 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> >>> I forgot to add that yum-plugin-priorities should be made mandatory for >>> any CentOS installation. >>> >> Adding some default lines to the repository configuration I'm open to, >> and we can discuss that as a change for an upcoming release. >> >> Mandating a package installation like this I'm pretty strongly against. >> That decision should be for the sysadmin (or a variant spin) to make. > I think it might be good to add priority=1 to both base and updates make it 5 or 10, please. one might want to supersede base packages with ones from private/local repos. hplip for instance was such a candidate for a long time, my printers were not supported by the stock version of hplip from EL5 and I had to compile a newer one from fedora. and at the time I was not yet relying on include/excludepkgs > repos in CentOS-Base.repo. If yum-plugin-priorities is installed then > those two repos probably should be the highest priority they can be and > if it isn't installed then they are no-ops so don't matter. > > T