[CentOS] Centos 7 Adding KDE as extra option

Thu Sep 10 21:52:24 UTC 2015
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr>

10/09/2015 21:56, david wrote:
> Folks
>
> While trying to add a second desktop to my Centos7 installation (I had
> GNOME3, wanted to add KDE as an alternate), the install failed:
>
<snip>
> I use priorities, as follows:
>
> 1: base
> 2: centosplus
> 3: updates
> 4: extras
> 5: cr
> 6: contrib
> 7: epel
>
> Can anyone explain this?  or let me know how to get around it?
> Rebuilding the server from scratch is definitely possible since this is
> a test environment only.


you need the same priority for updates as base, since packages in 
updates update packages in... base  ;-)
change updates prio to 1 and you should be good.