[CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

[Feizhou]

> I thought once upon a time some repo had a package named xmms-mp3 which 
> was different from the core version for obvious reasons.  I can't recall 
> a problem and I didn't have to know which repo I had to manage to get or 
> exclude it.

How are we supposed to know whether or not that is a sub-package like 
cyrus-sasl-md5 or cyrus-sasl-plain?

> 
>> This kind of situation rapid develops into the stuff that very
>> experienced admins need to create for their specific installation.
> 
> You mean like every Mac user that installs an add-on package by clicking 
> to open it's disk-image distribution and dragging it to a local location?
> 

Hey that is unfair. That is only possible because dependencies and what 
not are already dealt with. Those packages will just work.