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. > > mark 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. At present i don't know that centos is the right distro for me tbh. james