[CentOS] are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 19:51:41 UTC 2007


On Dec 4, 2007 11:01 AM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote:

> EPEL has stated that playing nicely with other repos is not a goal of
> theirs. I would consider them a 'single source' repo. If you're using
> them, don't use any other 3rd party repos.

Isn't this a little too harsh?  With proper use of the yum priorities
plugin, wouldn't it be possible to use stuff from EPEL together with
other 3rd party repos?

In any event, let's not start yet another EPEL discussion here. :-)

Akemi



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