On 4/16/2010 9:46 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> The main problem with 3rd party repos is that you have to be careful about
>> updates causing dependency conflicts, especially if you use more than one.
>
> You've mentioned that before, doesn't 'priorities' resolve this nicely? I
> use c5-testing, rf, atrpms, epel, remi and some others and never have issues.
Only if you actually know the right settings, which you have no way of
knowing because they are different from package to package and sometimes
from day to day.
> There are some duplicate packages in those, but careful picking makes it a
> non issue.
Yes, careful picking is the point - but you are picking from separately
moving targets. For example, a lot of things you may have installed
from centos extras are now duplicated in epel with some
incompatibilities. And there are odd couplings: for example if you use
subversion from rpmforge to get a version that is not insanely out of
date and also run viewvc, you would have gotten the rpmforge viewvc a
few months ago, but now the epel version would try to update it with an
incompatible configuration.
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Les Mikesell
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