[CentOS] bogus error message from yum update for gmime

Tue Apr 6 07:28:29 UTC 2010
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr>

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 3/31/2010 7:18 AM, William Hooper wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:30 AM, ken<gebser at mousecar.com>   wrote:
>>> Available Packages
>>> gmime.i386                           2.2.25-1.el5
>>>        epel
>>> gmime-devel.i386                     2.2.25-1.el5
>>>        epel
>>
>> The newer version of gmime is coming from the epel repo, which doesn't
>> appear to package gmime-sharp.
>
>
> There's really quite a lot of stuff that installs from Centos that now
> wants to update from epel (mono-*, horde, php-pear-*, python-*, yumex).
>    Is this a problem?  Previously I hadn't been too concerned about
> leaving epel enabled.
>

surprising question from someone who's been on this list so long...
don't you use priorities?  You *have* read this page, right?
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories