From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:04:35 -0800 (PST), Karl Dalen wrote:   
      
   > I rarely do system upgrades (judging from the fact that I was still   
   > running md 2010 until now)   
      
   Hopefully you will be installing updates. You should keep an eye on   
   the end of support date for any given release.   
      
   > so it's OK do go through the package   
   > installation manually. Some highly customizable software such as mplayer   
   > I prefer to build myself from source rather than install from distribution   
      
   Ok, whatever floats your boat, but I suggest leaving that activity as   
   a last resort. Especially mplayer. I seem to hit lots of codec gotchas   
   when surfing. Solution was to install   
   smplayer, gecko-mediaplayer, and mplayerplugin rpms.   
      
   > but all standard utilities I install from urpmi. I think I had   
   > installed several 100 packages in my MD 2010 environment.   
      
   I hear that.   
   $ grep urpmi *install* | wc -l   
   361   
      
   Like you I had a list of rpms, example; codec rpms.   
      
   With each New release package name changes and whatnot, I finally went   
   with locating an upper level rpm which automagically pulled in the low   
   level rpm I wanted.   
      
   From what you have said so far, looks like you will be getting pretty   
   familiar with the "urpmq" command.   
      
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