[CentOS] Centos 6.3 - which repos to use?

[James Freer]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
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> Am 26.01.2013 22:07, schrieb James Freer:
>> From what i have seen of fedora and centos in the rpm world the repos
>> are very much better in the debian world. To me the stability comes
>> from the distro and it's repos. Not being able to install Abiword or
>> yumex, having to spend time selecting options for repos to me simply
>> isn't worth it.
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>> I've just installed a Slackware distro today and it's the best i've
>> ever tried in 6 years of using linux. It's speed, ease of installation
>> put's it in a league of its own. Or as their 'chilling warning goes'
>> Once you go Slack... you never go back!
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> have fun with a package management without dependency tracking
> well, without the probles above are hidden, but not solved
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> a funny thing to play with - but laughable for production environments
> which you maintain over many years without reinstall them ever
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Like debian is improved on with derivative distros, when i said slack
i was referring to a derivative Salix... with package management
Gslapt which is very similar to synaptic. Hate to say it but imo very
much better than yum.

You've been a nice friendly crowd but centos isn't for me.

james