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Alexander Dalloz wrote:
|>Have one question, does it make sense to add the Fedora Extras to the
| It makes perfect sense to add Fedora Extras to your yum configuration. | Many applications went from Core to Extras, so at least from FC4 onwards | you would easily miss some things when not using the Extras repository.
There is one potential problem with Extras AIUI -- it does not offer Redhat's idea of Forbidden Fruits like mplayer.
Considering the realities of being Redhat and having VC money that's probably a reasonable situation. However AIUI Extras will not cooperate with the Dag/RPMforge repos for example, which do offer mplayer, about packaging decisions and conventions. Therefore mixing packages from Extras and third-party repos potentially will generate conflicts in library names and so on. (Of course one can say the same about all non-Fedora repos, except there is a willingness to cooperate on conventions amongst some other repos as shown by the RPMforge axis).
Please correct me if I have the wrong idea, but that is my understanding and is so something to consider about taking packages from Extras.
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