remi repo

[lightman47]

Is it 'safe' to use with CentOS 8, or will I start getting conflicts when I update?

I am searching repos looking for programs I use heavily in C7 - vlc, gnucash, etc. I'd really prefer not to build from source.

Thank you

[BShT]

i´ve been using it in CentOS 7 for PHP 7.2.

no problem for me even in production

[TrevorH]

Remi is the RH maintainer for php and probably other related things. His repos used to contain packages which overwrote those from base but I believe he stopped doing that some years ago. If you're worried then one way is to install it then edit the repo file and add includepkgs= and name an explicit list of things you want to look at.

[lightman47]

Thanks. The more I poke around the more it seems it's largely about PHP - which isn't what I need.

Thank you again.

[TrevorH]

For CentOS 8, make sure that you search all of EPEL, and also epel-testing and epel-playground for packages that you're looking for. The -playground repo is even more experimental than -testing but it's where things like KDE are at present.

[aussie]

Hi lightman47,

I have used rpmfusion mostly for my software in centos 6 and picked up a few items from nux. nux has stated they will not be adding support for el8. There isn't much software in rpmfusion for centos 8 although I did install vlc and audacity. I'm going to wait a month and take another look. It is still early days.

Aussie