Okay, thanks for the advice, Arthur and Temlakos. I will leave the other 3rd party repos unchecked. But what about repos like "xxx-debuginfo", "xxx-development" and "xxx-source". Are these also only for testing and developing, or do I need some of them? What are they? (Just trying to understand what I'm doing) thanks again! Morten lør, 06 05 2006 kl. 09:44 -0500, skrev Arthur Pemberton: > On 5/6/06, Morten Gerdsen <morten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > > If it is not too late, try to stay with one _one_ third party repo > 'enabled' full time: I would suggest Livna (having a specialty repo > like Macromedia doesn't count). So I would disable, not remove, Dries > and Fresh RPMS. They may be so already. > > The thing is, they are there, and can be manually, temporarily enabled > if you specifically need something from them. Otherwise, packaged > conflicts between all those 3rd Party (non Fedora) repos will come > back to bite you in the butt. > > > > 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. > > > > > > > -- > > 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. >
