long term support release
john wright
jwright at midlandscc.net
Fri Jan 25 14:12:34 UTC 2008
I seem to have gotten into something I never intended. How do I
dissenroll from this mailing list??
Sorry, it looks very interesting, but 100 emails a day is swamping my
email box.
Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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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