Hi Forum

I Have been trying to use Scientific Linux for a while, till now, everything
fine, although I am not very used to rpm/Yum systems...

I am more of a Debian power user, although I must admit that SL ( default
install ) is less a Hog on resources than Debian lenny ( Default Install ).

In Debian either one compiles stuff ( my favourite way of installing
software ) or one uses precompiled packages ( *.deb ) solving the
depencdency issues with apt or aptitude.

I find some differences in SL/CentOS/RHEL/Fedora systems...

Trying to compile stuff, the default paths of the X11 stuff ( binaries and
libs ) is different from the rest of the linuxes... not critical... just a
matter of setting it up correctly in configure options or in
configure.inscript...

The most critical issue is using Yum to install stuff...

Many times I have tried to install existing packages, priority policies stop
me from doing it...

The only repos that I have enabled are the SL-5.3 defaults, and the EPEL
repository from fedora project...

I suppose ( should i...? ) there is a 100% binary compatibility between SL
base install and these binaries...

So...   if I Try to install Octave/Octave forge, Gnumeric, as well as some
othe packages disabled by priority constraints, will it harm my system...?


BRGDS

Alex