On Wed, 18 May 2011, Orion Poplawski wrote:

> On 04/13/2011 02:00 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote:
>> 
>> Personally ELRepo and RPMforge are my first choices, and I find Adobe is
>> pretty safe. If I can't find what I'm looking for there I will venture 
>> (with
>> extra caution) to EPEL and finally ATrpms.
>> 
>> Phil
>
> Just curious - why do you feel the need to treat EPEL with extra caution?  I 
> happen to have reversed feeling about EPEL/RPMforge.  I note that out of the 
> box RPMforge will replace some system packages (perhaps without any 
> problems), something EPEL avoids.

I believe that RPMForge does not do this in SL6 - they have split
there stuff into two repos - rpmforge and rpmforge-extras
one which updates existing SL packages and one with only new packages.

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