On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Steve Gaarder wrote:

> I've been using RHEL, and am looking to move to SL because of the built-in
> OpenAFS and freedom from Red Hat's "installation numbers" and arbitrary
> server/client dichotomy.  It also looks like combining SL with a
> repository such as Dag's could give a range of available packages
> comparable to Debian/Ubuntu. Is anyone doing this, and how well does it
> work?

We already provide a provide /etc/yum.repo.d/ entries for dag and atrpms. 
They are enabled by default.  One can change the default of course.
So installing any of their packages is as easy as

yum --enablerepo=dag install ...

-Connie Sieh
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> thanks,
>
> Steve Gaarder
> System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics
> Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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