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Re: EPEL

On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 07:56:10AM -0500, Kevin Thomas wrote:
> I thought that installing software from this repo would break the binary
> compatibility with Red Hat if you're using CentOS? Wait...maybe it's the
> CentOS extras repo that breaks it? I'm confusing myself now.

The extra CentOS repos could conceivably be a problem in theory
(although never really in practice), but EPEL definitely is *not* a
problem.  It has the same philosophy Fedora Extras always had back in
the day...  Packages in the distro are never replaced.

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