Is mixing yum repos ok?

[Robin Laing]

Lloyd Hayes wrote:
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>>> How safe/dangerous is it to mix repos? I recently added the 
>>> kde-redhat to my yum config. Now I'm seeing updates for kde and Qt in 
>>> the kde-redhat repo, is it safe to apply them?
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> I'm not an expert, but I do know this one.
> 
> You need to check with the repository. An example would be that 
> downloads from Fedora.US can not be mixed with FreshRPMs. This 
> information is posted on their websites, along with the repositories 
> that they can be mixed with. These 2 repositories place files required 
> files in different directories.
> 
> 

I have had issues in the past between atrpms and other repositories so 
I don't use atrpms anymore.

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Robin Laing