Axel Thimm wrote: > this is strongly discouraged by 3rd party repos. Selective/partial > enabling leads to some packages being updated, but not their > dependencies, as the users would have to put all dependencies into > their filtering effectively replicating a depsolver's work. Also > dependencies change over time and therefore break any filtering. > > The often made recommendation to filter repos leads to worse bugs as > they become dependent on the personal filtering thus every user has > his own set of bugs and any support attempt is futile. A typical > example is that users filter with include=foo and libfoo is never > updated along ... > > I can only speak for ATrpms authoritatively, but I know the other > repos share the same opinion: Either use a repo unfiltered, or not at > all. If you start filtering things, you're on your own, please don't > even consider reporting resulting bugs. Usually, when I search and install an application from some third party repository, I have all the repositories enabled in yumex. Until now I had no problems. Also, I expect each repository to provide all the dependencies of every application it provides. Isn't this true?