On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

You seems to not understand what I was saying. I am not talking about what latest mono depends on, but what depends on mono.

I get what you're saying. As I said before, I understand that if other packages on the same system depend on mono, they would be affected, but my software is running alone within a virtual appliance so I have complete control over the software being installed. My concerns here are merely with the deployment of the mono 2.10 framework for use by my software. I'm not interested in replacing the system level libraries that provide RHEL and CentOS with its enterprise grade stability - just a framework that sits on top of that stable system. It's a matter of being able to choose the software framework(s) I wish to run on the system that I control.

From this discussion, it sounds like EPEL is the wrong place for shipping a recent version of mono given the stated goal of "EPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterparts and will never conflict with or replace packages in the base Enterprise Linux distributions." If you have a recommendation of a repo that ships a recent version or would be willing to include one if there was a package maintainer, please let me know.

Thanks again for your help.