On Sunday 30 April 2006 10:15, Michael A. Peters wrote: >On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 13:46 +0100, Garry Harthill wrote: >> On 30/04/06, Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Michael Offermann wrote: >> > > I'm using the Livna package, and I thing that the most Fedora >> > > users are also using Livna. It's a very pretty thing, and very >> > > very easy to use! I would say that it is very recommend to use >> > > Livna. So, install it, it will never ever be a disadvantage. >> > >> > I must be in a minority. >> > I only update from the standard core/updates/extras repositories >> > (which I get from a local repository). >> > While I have the .repo files for livna, freshrpms, dries, dag, >> > etc, they are all disabled (enabled=0) and I would only install >> > individual packages from these repositories (yum >> > --enablerepo=livna) as and when required. >> >> I do the same. I don't like updating the entire system against 3rd >> party repos. I only use them when I need to. > >Livna has a policy of not replacing core/extras packages as far as I >know - so it is safe to leave it enabled. > >By having it enabled - you make bug fixes that hit them available. > >My philosophy is that if I don't want it enabled all the time, I don't >want it all. If it has something I can not get from a repo I want >enabled, then I look at submitting it to extras myself - or build it >myself (trying to adhere to the FE guidelines) > >Installing something and then closing myself off from updates is not >what I like to do. Either it is in a repository I want to use, or I >maintain it myself. Unforch, livna seems to be on the missing list for about the last 36 hours here. If I don't uncheck it in kyum, it exits with an error 1. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
