Why would you want to use rpmfusion over nux? I've had great success 
anyway with nux.

James Pulver
CLASSE Computer Group
Cornell University

On 01/26/2017 03:59 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 26/01/17 20:42, Maarten wrote:
>> Great, didn't know that about rpmfusion now doing el7. Anyone know if
>> nux-desktop repo and rpmfusion can be mixed together? It's not mentioned
>> on their FAQ.
>
> Quote from the announcement on the rpmfusion list - I forget how to get
> a link:
>
> "While bootstrapping the EL7 repo, we've tried to look at existing
> work, specially from the nux repo. Unfortunately we haven't received
> any direct help from this contributor."
>
> I ought to say that the nux packages have worked well for me.
>
> .. and back on topic - if Yasha had his local repo enabled he should
> already have the packages he wants.  I didn't/don't.
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2017-01-26 21:32, John Pilkington wrote:
>>> On 26/01/17 20:02, Yasha Karant wrote:
>>>> Yesterday afternoon, I did a successful update from production 7.2 to
>>>> production 7.3 through yumex.  In addition to the SL production
>>>> repositories, I use the epel, elrepo, and google-chrome repositories
>>>> for
>>>> specific add-ons, including nvidia support.  I only use kernels from
>>>> SL.  Although the update was slow, it taking a very long time for the
>>>> nvidia portion to complete cleanup (I left after a 5 minute wait), when
>>>> I came back this morning, everything appears to be working, including
>>>> applications that have not been touched since I first installed SL 7
>>>> (e.g., UCSF chimera, Weizmann grace).  The machine to which this was
>>>> done has a 802.3 wired connection to a USA university research
>>>> backbone.  The next thing to update is my laptop that has a 802.11
>>>> connection to a production network, significantly lower data rate.  Is
>>>> there any way to get a list of the required RPMs, download and burn
>>>> these to a DVD, and then have yumex use the DVDs, only going to the
>>>> network to get additional RPMs that turn out to be needed?
>>>>
>>>> Yasha Karant
>>>>
>>> # cat /var/log/yum.log ?
>>>
>>> yumex History shows I had 453 packages initially, then 86 more
>>> security packages after a reboot.  I also had 1 auto and one manual
>>> update of the same google-chrome-stable package earlier today.  Seems
>>> strange.
>>>
>>> rpmfusion announced support for el7 today.  Switching from nux looks
>>> as if it could be 'interesting'
>>>
>>> John P
>>