On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:54:21 -0500 Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > To be perfectly honest, the differences between EPEL and Base+extras > can usually be completely ignored anyway. > > While somethings may be in epel and extras .. and the extras versions > might lag, the extras version likely came from EPEL in the first place > and was added as a build requirement for some other package in extras. > > This means that if there is a newer version in EPEL later, it is > likely not going to cause a problem if it is installed on CentOS .. > and in reality, we should probably be pulling that newer EPEL package > into extras anyway. > > I don't think, if you stay in the elrepo, EPEL, and Base+Extras family > that you are going to be hurt very often using whatever yum finds > without yum-priorities at all. I would add the NUX repo to those as > well. If you go outside those 4, maybe yum-priorities become more > important. > > I am sure with 8,000 or so total packages, one might find a conflict > that matters .. but I don't know of any that matter right now. By > matter, I mean that there is an actual issue using the newer package > from the 4 repos, whichever one that is. Yes, I agree. After I went through the list of conflicting packages, I failed to find anything that could even remotely be called critical or dangerous. So in the end, one probably doesn't need yum-priorities if one stays within the four main repos. Anyway, thanks for the info! Best, :-) Marko