thanks a lot for all your answers - I'm learning all the time :o) So now I have disabled all repos named testing, but what about repos named for instance: "extras-source" or "livna-source"? These are my checked repos: - core - dries - extras - freshrpms - livna - macromedia - updates which one would you exclude and which ones do I miss? My goal is having my system being bleeding-edge, and I don't mind a few things being a bit buggy - but I wouldn't like having to reinstall my whole system too often. Sorry if I am being unclear with something, and thanks again for taking time out to help a newbie. On another note: I recently came from Ubuntu, and while I liked the distro and liked the idea behind it I found it lacking in some areas. And I actually feel like FC5 is less likely to crash - meybe it's because of my hardware, I dunno - but I like it so far :o) And the forums/mail lists are actually - it seems - a bit more open minded and friendly. Nuff rambling :oD Morten lør, 06 05 2006 kl. 04:39 -0500, skrev Arthur Pemberton: > 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 > > > > > -- > As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins. >
