>> epel is the best large 3rd party repo in terms of avoiding conflicts >> with the base. >> > > Yeah, I noticed that with rpmforge. I was just under the impression that > epel was a bit "dodgy" as repos come. Never too late to be enlightened > though. ;-) > the following is my opinion, and nothing else: epel doesn't use a repository tag in their RPM names. this makes it hard to use with other repositories.