Best yum repositories for FC5?

Garry Harthill gazzerh at gmail.com
Sun Apr 30 12:46:25 UTC 2006


On 30/04/06, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> Michael Offermann wrote:
>
> > I'm using the Livna package, and I thing that the most Fedora users are
> > also using Livna. It's a very pretty thing, and very very easy to use!
> > I would say that it is very recommend to use Livna. So, install it, it
> > will never ever be a disadvantage.
>
> I must be in a minority.
> I only update from the standard core/updates/extras repositories
> (which I get from a local repository).
> While I have the .repo files for livna, freshrpms, dries, dag, etc,
> they are all disabled (enabled=0) and I would only install
> individual packages from these repositories (yum --enablerepo=livna)
> as and when required.

I do the same. I don't like updating the entire system against 3rd
party repos. I only use them when I need to.




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