m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Kaushal Shriyan >> <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I am running Cent OS 5.8 in production. Can someone please explain me >>> about various repositories available in CentOS 5.8 and which third > party repos >>> (http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories) i should use >>> it >>> in Production environment. >>> >>> Help me understand the pros and cons. >> >> Usually you decide what packages that aren't included in the base >> distribution that you need, and then pick the repository that has them >> instead of the other way around. However EPEL is generally the first >> place to look and since it has a policy of not overwriting base >> packages there is not much risk in using it. > <snip> > The other one we use is rpmfusion, both free and non-free. They're stable > and compatible with the base CentOS repos. > > For workstations with nvidia, who want two monitors, I'm slowly moving > from rebuilding the proprietary library from nvidia to elrepo's > kmod-nvidia, although I believe I heard that it's going to move to the > base library real soon now.... Following myself up, I just wanted to clarify that kmod-nvidia, and it's required nvidia-x11-drv are the *only* things I pull from elrepo. Pulling randomly would result in collisions, as one base or other repo package would conflict on dependencies with an elrepo's dependencies. mark