James Freer wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:32 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> James Freer wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:34 PM, John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> From: James Freer <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com> >>>> >>>>>> i do not recommend to use this two repos simultaniuous (or use >>>>>> priorities!). >>>>> hmmm - well what is one supposed to do? >>>> >>>> I use priorities and did not run into much problems so far... >>>> base = 1 >>>> rpmforge = 2 (just watch out for rfx packages) >>>> elrepo = 3 >>>> epel = 4 >>>> >>>> JD >>> >>> Thanks for that suggestion. I'll look into it all again in a couple of >>> days. I'm just surprised that Centos risk the stability issue using >>> other repos. >> >> I wouldn't agree with the priorities above. As I mentioned earlier in >> this thread, our standard repos, in addition to the base, are rpmfusion and >> epel. Other than *sigh* 386 vs x86_64 issues, we've never had dependency >> conflicts. It all just works. elrepo I use *only* for kmod-nvidia and >> its dependencies; I don't use rpmforge - I've tried, a few times, and >> frequently run into dependency conflicts. > > I was only thinking of rpmforge as it seems the only repo with Abiword > in it. For WP one has only got LO-writer or Abiword... i prefer the > lighter unless i need the features of LO-writer as i did when i was > teaching and preparing handouts. Watch out how you say that - my reaction on seeing you write WP is to wonder if they've *finally* put out a newer release of WordPerfect. (There *was* a linux version about 10-12 years ago, under Corel Linux). mark