On 6 November 2010 13:57, Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org> wrote: > Third-party repos sometimes conflict. > For example if you activate both EPEL and RPMForge fully, it is very > likely that your perl-* packages will be a complete mess. > > That's why I personally followed the approach of enabling EPEL > (almost) fully and then include RPMForge packages one by one (see my > previous mail) > > It could be done the other way around, using primarily RPMForge and > then picking up EPEL packages one by one. > RPMForge is "stronger" on multimedia, up-to-date versions etc., but > EPEL is a Fedora project and many packages have the same maintainer in > EPEL and Fedora. So, by using it you stay more in the "Red Hat > family", since RHEL (and thus CentOS) releases are based on Fedora. Thanks, I will keep that in mind. In fact I also had the same problem with Fedora, whereby some Atrpms packages conflicted with those from mainline Fedora or RPM Fusion, so I ended up disabling Atrpms and enabling it only when grabbing individual packages.