<div dir="ltr">just an aside, DJ: I'm pretty sure "apt" has superseded aptitude _and_ apt-get now.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:49 AM, James Sumners <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:37 AM, DJ-Pfulio <<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Being "supported" is a major consideration for me. If many of the pkgs<br>
> that I use (and I'm not a pkg whore) are not, moving to another distro<br>
> is the easiest solution. Of course, then the question becomes whether<br>
> "supported" really means anything on the other distros too. Cannot say<br>
> today. On RHEL - adding epel ... does that break the same stuff?<br>
<br>
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</span>I use epel on all of the systems I manage. The nice thing about epel<br>
is they specifically do NOT add packages that are maintained in the<br>
base OS repositories, and everything is linked against the base<br>
environment. And the epel locks the major version of their packages<br>
once the repository leaves "beta". They also issue errata that can be<br>
tracked and managed via Satellite.<br>
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