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If  you want to get the entire world of opensource software on your centos machine,  you might want to enable support for multiple repositories.

The question is which takes priorities – Aha! that is when yum-priorities come into picture…

Here is how to install and configure

• Install the priorities package – “yum install yum-priorities”
• Edit the .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ and set up priorities by adding the line: “priority=n” where n is the priority
• CentOS documentation recommends the following:

      [base], [addons], [updates], [extras] ... priority=1
      [centosplus],[contrib] ... priority=2
      Third Party Repos such as rpmforge ... priority=N  (where N is > 10 and based on your preference)