long term support release

[Les Mikesell]

Till Maas wrote:

>>>>                             Or several, if the primary one won't
>>>> include Sun Java, vlc + codecs, and Nvidia/Ati drivers.
>>> EPEL doesn't include software that can't be redistributed legally as open
>>> source, as it is part of Fedora. Fine with me, BTW.
>> If this repository is unwilling to provide all packages, is there a
>> process in place to permit the other necessary repositories to be
>> enabled without conflicts?   Or is there another repository with a more
>> inclusive policy?
> 
> With the yum-priorities plugin, you can give priorities to repositories. 
> Repositories with a higher priority cannot overwrite packages from 
> repositories with a lower priority.

I think you can end up with problems that are even harder to fix if you 
do this and then the wrong repo updates a library.

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   Les Mikesell
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