On 03/15/2013 09:29 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Agreed, but those repositories don't have everything - by policy - and > everything can't be coordinated or tested together. That was not the case in this instance, and lacking an example of such an instance, there's no reason for you to continue this ranting thread. > Thus the > requirement for the manual configuration to attempt to control > updates No, there probably isn't any good reason to manually configure ELrepo as it was. Like EPEL, they don't put packages in their repository that are also featured in the base distribution.