I'm fine with nux-desktop also, wasn't planning on switching. Was just 
wondering if they were mixable, but seems can't be sure.



On 2017-01-27 14:49, James M. Pulver wrote:
> 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
>>>