Paul Johnson wrote: > This is entirely correct. Like many, I have been in dependency hell > because of repo mistakes. Please create a more direct way for new users > to > protect themselves. We used to caution people, but that's insufficient > now. > It should be in the base install. I'd say it should be centos priority 1. My recommendation would be to enable only the epel and nux-dextop repos. If you add any other third party repos, have them be disabled. My experience has been that epel and nux-dextop do not cause dependency issues, and between the two they provide almost everything I want. Don't be surprised if they don't change anything in the base install. Remember that the whole point of CentOS is to provide a system almost identical to what the upstream source provides. c