On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> It is usually safe to just add the EPEL repo to your yum configuration as
> described here:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_can_I_install_the_packages_from_the_EPEL_software_repository.3F
> and then yum will sort out the dependencies itself.   The EPEL policy is to
> not replace/overwrite any upstream packages so it rarely causes any
> conflicts, but if you are concerned about that, after installing the
> epel-release package you can edit the /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo file and
> set enabled=0.  Then when you want something from there, add
> --enablerepo=epel on the yum command line when you install or update
> specific packages.  Most other 3rd party repos are not as careful about
> conflicts and are more dangerous to leave enabled for updates.

Just to add as an FYI, RPM Fusion's EPEL repository does not supply
packages that are already in Fedora's EPEL or RHEL base packages. AT
RPMS doesn't have a problem with providing duplicate packages.

Richard

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