> That is what I suspect. I presume I have to block it from being upgraded after as well. How can I force the new app back in without worrying about this dependency? > > to prevent a package from being updated or installed from a certain repo you'd add exclude=package_name to the yum config for that particular repo - that way if you add it to rpmforge and the package exists in rpmforge and base then the installation and or update would occur from the base repo.