[CentOS] What causes phantom update nags?

Thu Jul 2 18:08:33 UTC 2015
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 7/2/2015 10:20 AM, Kay Schenk wrote:
> Yes, I did see this warning on CentOS wiki re RPMForge but decided to
> use it anyway. But how does this relate to the problem? I DO NOT even
> have perl-IO-Compress installed. Mostly I figured this was a repository
> entanglement problem, but I didn't know why. I mean why do I keep
> getting messages about updating something I don't have installed.

its a broken repository and shouldn't be used.    "I know its broken but 
decided to use it anyways?"   maybe that warning should be made stronger.





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