On Wed, 13 May 2009, Robin Price II wrote:
For RHEL, I would highly suggest using both EPEL and RPMFUSION together. They do not play nice with the Dag repo installed along side them. I spoke with Dag a while back regarding the conflicts I was having but I didn't see much interest to get things cleared up. Hopefully Dag follows the mailing-list closely and can comment more on it.
There is no interest from the EPEL side either, which is a shame. When I started I was basicly the only repository doing packages for Red Hat and RHEL, that was somewhere in 2003.
Then when Fedora was born there was no interest within the Fedora community to support a paid-for distribution even when the effort would have been minimal. That was the main reason why with RPMforge we couldn't work together with the Fedora project because our main focus was RHEL (and later also CentOS).
The fact that the Fedora project started EPEL 2 years ago was a slap in the face since those packages break existing systems that were using RPMforge (mostly CentOS anyway). Fedora is not adding a repotag, which means we get to blame when there are package conflicts (people think no repotag means these packages come from Red Hat).
Also the fact that EPEL is a Fedora initiative is not only confusing, it tries to bring together two communities that are inherently different :-(
Nowadays, RPMforge is mostly recommended and used on CentOS systems while EPEL is promoted through the Fedora project and Red Hat.
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