On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Marcus Moeller wrote: >> 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. I am all for a solution, but unless it already works I would not call it a solution, but a short-term (and possibly long-term) risk. -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]