which repos to use?

[Austin Isler]

Jon Savage wrote:

>On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:08:41 -0500, Christopher J. Bottaro
><cjbottaro at alumni.cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
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>>Hello,
>>As of now, I use the yum.conf from fedorafaq.org.  I commented out the
>>following:
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><snip>
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>>How do I know which repos conflict with other repos?  Which repos do people
>>generally use?  Why is this so complicated?
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>>I did 'yum install mplayer-skins' and now i have the following installed:
>>mplayer-skins-1.3-0.lvn.2.2
>>mplayer-0.92.1-0.lvn.5.2
>>mplayer-gui-0.92.1-0.lvn.5.2
>>Well thats all fine and dandy, but no win32codecs are installed.  I can't
>>play QuickTime movies.
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>>So what do I do?  Comment out the livna repos and add some others (which??).
>>Then when I'm done installing the codecs, recomment them out and re-add the
>>livna repos?  There has got to be a better way, I might as well compile
>>from source...its actually less of a hassle.
>>
>>Thanks for the help.
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>Some of the 3rd party repos don't play well with others.
>Dag, Freshrpms et. al. don't conflict with each other for the most
>part but they sometimes conflict with Fedora-extras /Livna they don't
>often conflict with core that I know of.
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>I've been happy using core, extras & livna. Another option would be to
>follow the excellent fedora multimedia FAQ at:
>http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/.
>
>Compiling from source is a viable option for some items as well,
>depends on what you want to install & also on how much time you have
>on your hands.
>Bests
>
>Jon
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I personally have not yet encountered a problem with all the repos in 
use, but who knows. Give it a try!

Austin