On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 11:09 -0700, Garrick Staples wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:41:35PM -0400, Steven Stromer alleged: > > I was really hoping to hear more about how others manage the crossover > > that occurs between packages in Fedora's repos and other repos. If you > > or anyone else has comments on this, please post. I understand that for > > I disable all "non official" repos, leaving main, extras, updates, and > livna. Then I use '--enablerepo=*' when querying for something I want. > > If I find something from a 3rd party repo, I enable that repo but keep > it limited with an explicit "includepkgs" with only those packages I > want. And if I'm feeling pedantic, I exclude those packages from the > official repos. > > For example, my girlfriend's FC4 desktop doesn't get anything from dag, > atrpms, etc. But my FC4 laptop includes ipw2100 from atrpms. > just as a fyi - you can get ipw2100, etc from livna, too. -sv
