Beartooth wrote: > On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:35:59 +0000, I Beartooth wrote: > > >> On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:10:34 -0700, Ben Brown wrote: >> >> >>> It sounds to me like you've enabled the development repos. Was that >>> intentional? >>> >> Bless you, SIR! It was most certainly NOT intentional; I do at >> least know better than that ... >> > > [snipperoo] > > > So you get in the habit, as I have for years now, when running > pirut, of going through the -devel options. No harm has ever come of > that, afaik, at least to me. > > So pirut's sudden offer of development *repos* waves no red flag > -- and you later render your whole OS unusable, at least by anyone *not* > a developer. > > Installing the -devel packages only installs the libraries necessary for development (compiling your own software) and will do no harm other than take extra disk space. Using the development yum repos will install rpm packages that are still in development and can cause harm due to bugs, conflicts, etc. I would suggest sticking with the updates and possibly updates-testing (if you need new releases) repos. I would only use the development repos if you require the latest of the latest on a few specific packages. Even then, I would not include them in yum; preferring instead to download packages manually on an individual basis. -B
