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