On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Bry8 Star <bry8star at yahoo.com> wrote: >> > I find it very very annoying that, CentOS lacks STABLE+last > releases. It is not only CentOS, ther Linux as well. But this RHEL > close/derivative, is very very behind. If you don't want stability and don't mind installing all the time, why start with CentOS in the first place? > And YUM need to have a feature to analyze a user specified/given > app. IF, yum were to have a feature to analyze current priority, > include, exclude settings, and then show/indicate what include, > exclude need to be set for an user-specified or pre-specified > last+stable app/tool, then such would have been very helpful. Yum > need to analyze all deps/libs related to that pre-specified app. I don't think that is possible in the general case. > And, may be even a better chroot type of app/system should be > developed & exist in CentOS/RHEL, to easily try those STABLE+last > releases, effectively, so that service based on those can be easily > used, even on a 128 MB based box. Maybe run fedora or ubuntu in a VM? > CentOS webpage/site should also show to all users, some example of > using multiple repos and how to implement effective includepkgs, > exclude, priority etc directives properly for some certain last & > STABLE app(s) (which is by default not in CentOS), so that others > can understand the pattern, or have a pointer for them. If you find a 100% reliable solution, please post it. I usually just leave 3rd party repos other than epel disabled and use enablerepo= on the yum command line only to install or update specific packages. And even then I look closely at what yum is proposing to replace before doing it. > Just mentioning about, that, there is such things called > "includepkgs=...", "exclude=..." ad now go do it yourself (and sorry > no example), obviously does not help that much to users, and its > CentOS's loss as well, users go away to other distros, and > ultimately many of them are lost in the jungle. RHEL/CentOS is really aimed at people who want to set up machines that run for years with little attention. There's a natural conflict between that and thousands of developers making incompatible changes in their 'latest' releases. You just have to find a balance. If you need one or two 'latest' programs you can probably build it yourself or find a repo you trust. If you need dozens or hundreds of 'latest' programs, CentOS is probably the wrong place to start. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com