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. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [log in to unmask] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna