On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com> wrote: > On 03/15/2013 08:32 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> As long as the distro requires the use of a >> repository that by policy excludes things that almost everyone needs >> we are pretty much forced to > > Les, calm down. Both CentOS and ELrepo are fine. The problem was > caused by the OP's own manual configuration, not the distro or the 3rd > party repository. Agreed, but those repositories don't have everything - by policy - and everything can't be coordinated or tested together. Thus the requirement for the manual configuration to attempt to control updates, and the likelihood that it will be wrong in the future or that problems with it will be exposed later. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com