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
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