long term support release

[john wright]

I seem to have gotten into something I never intended.  How do I 
dissenroll from this mailing list??

Sorry, it looks very interesting, but  100 emails a day is swamping my 
email box.

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Till Maas wrote:
>
>>>>>                             Or several, if the primary one won't
>>>>> include Sun Java, vlc + codecs, and Nvidia/Ati drivers.
>>>> EPEL doesn't include software that can't be redistributed legally 
>>>> as open
>>>> source, as it is part of Fedora. Fine with me, BTW.
>>> If this repository is unwilling to provide all packages, is there a
>>> process in place to permit the other necessary repositories to be
>>> enabled without conflicts?   Or is there another repository with a more
>>> inclusive policy?
>>
>> With the yum-priorities plugin, you can give priorities to 
>> repositories. Repositories with a higher priority cannot overwrite 
>> packages from repositories with a lower priority.
>
> I think you can end up with problems that are even harder to fix if 
> you do this and then the wrong repo updates a library.
>