So everyone who uses CentOS knows the default repositories have their limits. I've been using rpmforge for years as a secondary repo. I usually use yum priorities to make sure rpmforge never installs something the base repo can take care of. Recently I came across a need to install EPEL as a tertiary repo. Is EPEL kept more up to date than rpmforge or in any way better? Should I be using that instead of rpmforge?
CentOS repositories: EPEL or rpmforge, which one is better and why
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Best Answer
It's been a while since this question was asked, but it looks like EPEL is now preferred to RPMForge, at least by the CentOS community. You can see here that EPEL is listed under "Community Approved Repositories":
Available Repositories for CentOS - Community Approved Repositories
While RPMForge is listed under "Known Problem Repositories":
Available Repositories for CentOS - Known Problem Repositories