On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:38 PM, John R Pierce<pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> a) rpmforge and epel don't mix well > > more specifically, EPEL doesn't mix well with -any- other repository as > they insist on not using a repository tag > > I for one leave EPEL disabled, and only enable it manually when I > absolutely need something from it thats not available elsewhere. IMHO, on my CentOS 5.3 (32 bit) Desktop, RPMForge works very well. I have given it a much higher Priority than EPEL. When I added the EPEL Repository, the number of excluded packages went from approximately 400 to 1705. My belief is that if EPEL had a high priority, it would replace a *LOT* of packages I do not want replaced.