On 5/6/06, Morten Gerdsen <morten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
thanks a lot for all your answers - I'm learning all the time :o) So now I have disabled all repos named testing, but what about repos named for instance: "extras-source" or "livna-source"? These are my checked repos: - core - dries - extras - freshrpms - livna - macromedia - updates
If it is not too late, try to stay with one _one_ third party repo 'enabled' full time: I would suggest Livna (having a specialty repo like Macromedia doesn't count). So I would disable, not remove, Dries and Fresh RPMS. They may be so already. The thing is, they are there, and can be manually, temporarily enabled if you specifically need something from them. Otherwise, packaged conflicts between all those 3rd Party (non Fedora) repos will come back to bite you in the butt.
which one would you exclude and which ones do I miss? My goal is having my system being bleeding-edge, and I don't mind a few things being a bit buggy - but I wouldn't like having to reinstall my whole system too often. Sorry if I am being unclear with something, and thanks again for taking time out to help a newbie. On another note: I recently came from Ubuntu, and while I liked the distro and liked the idea behind it I found it lacking in some areas. And I actually feel like FC5 is less likely to crash - meybe it's because of my hardware, I dunno - but I like it so far :o) And the forums/mail lists are actually - it seems - a bit more open minded and friendly. Nuff rambling :oD Morten lør, 06 05 2006 kl. 04:39 -0500, skrev Arthur Pemberton: > On 5/6/06, Morten Gerdsen <morten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've recently installed FC5 for the first time, so I'm sorry if this is > > a stupid question: > > No question is stupid here if you are honest about it and take your > time to pose it. > > > In my Yum repo list I can see a lot of repos that are > > not being used by my Yum, such as "core-source", "extras-development", > > "legacy testing" etc etc. > > > > Am I right in assuming that some of these are beta-versions of new > > packages, and would it be a mistake to use them? > > > You are very rigth about them being beta. But to be more correct, and > as you hinted at, they are betas of the packages, not necessarily the > software being packaged. So it is quite possible to have a beta > package of a beta application. > > You aren't really _mistaken_ to use them. However, you should only use > them if you know what you are doing, know what you need exactly, or > are a tester for Fedora. > > For example: you really need a pacakge, but it is still in > fedora-testing - in that case you would install from there. > > But simply put, don't use it if you don't know what you are going to > get from it. > > I realize that some might be unstable, but couldn't I just uninstall the > > new versions and reinstall the old ones if something was too buggy? > > > > I guess I am asking: which repos should I use if I want to stay > > "bleeding edge", and which one should I avoid under all circumstances? > > > > thanks! > > Morten > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > -- > As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins. > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
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