Hi all, > I have been using RPMforge much longer than EPEL and only have a few > packages from EPEL on my 5.3 (32 bit) desktop. When I added the EPEL > Repository to Priorities, the number of packages excluded went from > approximately 400 to 1705. My belief is that had I not given EPEL a > very low priority, it would have replaced approximately 1300 packages. > Probably those whose priority is to have the latest and greatest > should be using another distro (Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.). The philosophy > behind Enterprise Distros is stability and security and long life, not > having the latest and greatest packages. There was a time where CentOS contrib repo has been announced. It was meant to be a package source for 'community-contributed' packages. So why not just merge stable RPMForge packages over there and start a 'semi-official' CentOS orientated repository from the scratch. Best Regars Marcus