what's the story on mixing yum repos these days?

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Fri Sep 29 23:48:44 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 13:06 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   i've read differing advice on whether it's safe to mix and match
> > livna, ATrpms and rpmforge repos.  what i'm after is to install
> > various multimedia packages (codecs, mplayer, etc.)
> >
> >   any good advice?  thanks.
> >
> 
> I'm using the official GStreamer repositories [1] with Livna and Core/Extras
> for all of my multimedia needs (gstreamer-universe, mplayer, loads of
> open-source codecs, et al.) No troubles here. (The Gstreamer FC5 repositories
> even work well with Rawhide, but that's not considered stable at all (though
> I'm weird and cooky like that).

Would you give a brief on how you use it?? Ric
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