On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Natxo Asenjo wrote:

> hi,
>
> yesterday I installed the live dvd iso on my laptop (dell latitude
> e6500) and am very happy to say everything just worked (TM). So this
> is very nice.
>
> What are the 'recommended' repos outside sl repos people are using for
> installing desktop apps?

SL6 ships with the three packages
 	epel-release
 	rpmforge-release
and
 	elrepo-release
so in that sense I guess they are the officially recommended external 
repos. I believe that elrepo is mostly kernel drivers, so not a
place to look for desktop apps.

As others have suggested, I keep these repos disabled and explicitly
enable them to install individual packages.

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