EasyLife Project vs Russian Fedora Remix

[Nikolai D.]

Hi guys and girls, if there are some here,

First little history here:
First tried Suse 7 years ago, or something like that. Not used actually, was collecting dust on second partition. Then after view years switched Ubuntu 5 or 6 or something. Used it for view years on my desctop. Linux only. No dual boot nothing. Then bought a mac mini. Played with OSX for view years. While following lessons of Fedora and CentOS. Then Win7 came out. Used it for view years. To be kind of up to date.

Now:
a view month ago i installed Russian Fedora Remix on a mac. I a sence of completely switching back to linux. I dont want to use OSX for example simply because you get used to what u use. So i tough ill run lets say Fedora on my desktop at home and workstation at work. And surely CentOS on server('s). For glpi for example, or wahtever else. Fog maybe.

The trouble:
Ive installed Russian Fedora Remix and then installed EasyLife Project on it. Everything runned fine for view month. Then view weeks ago it stated to refuse to update because of package conflict. On Russian Fedora Remix forum ive got an advise to remove the conflicting package. (Alsa). When i removed it, it removed also one gig dependencies. Now gnome and kde do not log in. Only openbox and enlightenment work. Browsers do not work. And i doubd something else works at all.

THe question:
I wondered what are the proc and cons of the RPMFusion enabled by EasiLife project and Russian Fedora Remix repos. Because RFR repos already contain non free codecs and so on. My first tough was that maybe it would be more interesting to use Russian repos because maybe they would be littlebit later in updates. So if an update brakes something. It can be fixed before it was added there. Im Russian by the way, thats why im interested in this version. Althou what is more of concern to me is that RFR contains all the codecs out of the box. For me on the PC its RFR or SuperOS that are interesting. The rest are details. But then, my second though was that maybe RFR might also be kind of purer then EasyLife project. I mean i remember the days when people on Ubuntu forums were against Automatix. Offcourse i expected EasiLife project to be more cosher maybe. Maybe because its fedora finaly not ubuntu. I always tought that fedora forums are kind of more professional but, what is not so good, less friendly compared to ubuntu. Thats was my impression. And also ive been already suggested on the fedora irc to not use easylife project. I actually installed it on RFR mainly because of a habit of installing it on fedora. And because of a theme. But that is not a concern anymore. Cuz ill costumize it anyway.

So what are the proc and cons of EasyLife Project vs Russian Fedora Remix?

Share your toughs on it. Any suggestions are appreciated.
THanks in advance,
Nikolai

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by Nikolai D.

Hi guys and girls, if there are some here,

First little history here:
First tried Suse 7 years ago, or something like that. Not used actually, was collecting dust on second partition. Then after view years switched Ubuntu 5 or 6 or something. Used it for view years on my desctop. Linux only. No dual boot nothing. Then bought a mac mini. Played with OSX for view years. While following lessons of Fedora and CentOS. Then Win7 came out. Used it for view years. To be kind of up to date.

Now:
a view month ago i installed Russian Fedora Remix on a mac. I a sence of completely switching back to linux. I dont want to use OSX for example simply because you get used to what u use. So i tough ill run lets say Fedora on my desktop at home and workstation at work. And surely CentOS on server('s). For glpi for example, or wahtever else. Fog maybe.

The trouble:
Ive installed Russian Fedora Remix and then installed EasyLife Project on it. Everything runned fine for view month. Then view weeks ago it stated to refuse to update because of package conflict. On Russian Fedora Remix forum ive got an advise to remove the conflicting package. (Alsa). When i removed it, it removed also one gig dependencies. Now gnome and kde do not log in. Only openbox and enlightenment work. Browsers do not work. And i doubd something else works at all.

THe question:
I wondered what are the proc and cons of the RPMFusion enabled by EasiLife project and Russian Fedora Remix repos. Because RFR repos already contain non free codecs and so on. My first tough was that maybe it would be more interesting to use Russian repos because maybe they would be littlebit later in updates. So if an update brakes something. It can be fixed before it was added there. Im Russian by the way, thats why im interested in this version. Althou what is more of concern to me is that RFR contains all the codecs out of the box. For me on the PC its RFR or SuperOS that are interesting. The rest are details. But then, my second though was that maybe RFR might also be kind of purer then EasyLife project. I mean i remember the days when people on Ubuntu forums were against Automatix. Offcourse i expected EasiLife project to be more cosher maybe. Maybe because its fedora finaly not ubuntu. I always tought that fedora forums are kind of more professional but, what is not so good, less friendly compared to ubuntu. Thats was my impression. And also ive been already suggested on the fedora irc to not use easylife project. I actually installed it on RFR mainly because of a habit of installing it on fedora. And because of a theme. But that is not a concern anymore. Cuz ill costumize it anyway.

So what are the proc and cons of EasyLife Project vs Russian Fedora Remix?

Share your toughs on it. Any suggestions are appreciated.
THanks in advance,
Nikolai

I wouldn't use the Russian Fedora remix repo's as they aren't supported and will cause package conflicts.

P.S Easylife is just a installer script for installing additions from rpmfusion and others.

[giulix]

Yeah, from your post it looks like you're competent enough to compile the odd application yourself when it comes to it. Use Fedora's repos and RPMFusion only. You can add more, but only if no dependency is involved (at least, that's what I do for Adobe's Flash plugin and a few others). If you mix repos, invariably, sooner or later something will break. As for the language, if you install OSs to study them, the English version is usually better, as it is not subject to interpretation. As far as I can remember, I've never installed a Linux version other than English (windoze's another story of course, as you can't choose)

[Nikolai D.]

I never used anything else then English. But its nice to let my mother login in russian.

[Nikolai D.]

And, yes, thank you guys.
God bless.

---------- Post added at 03:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:14 PM ----------

After i removed (unselected) the Russian Fedora Remix repos. I sucessfully updated the system. (7xx mb updates). Except this:
gxneur-0.12.0-3.svn859.fc14.x86_64 requires xneur = 0.12.0-3.svn859.fc14 : Success - empty transaction

[Nikolai D.]

Hmm, interesting here found some other interesting auto installers. I wonder do they have repo auto repair function build in.. ^^
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/easily-i ... ns-in.html