[CentOS] Centos 7 Adding KDE as extra option

Thu Sep 10 21:55:32 UTC 2015
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr>

10/09/2015 23:52, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
> 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.

BTW cr should also have prio 1 (same as base and updates) since when it 
exists it also updates packages in base+updates.