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Re: SL vs. RPMForge repo
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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 18 May 2011 08:40:51 -0700
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On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Orion Poplawski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  I note that out of the
> box RPMforge will replace some system packages (perhaps without any
> problems), something EPEL avoids.

Not any more. :-)

RPMforge now offers two repos - [rpmforge] and [rpmforge-extras].
Packages in [rpmforge] will not have conflict with the distro ones
whereas those in [rpmforge-extras] may overwrite distro files.

Akemi

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