From: VBCoen@gmail.com   
      
      
   Hello Markus!   
      
   Thursday December 24 2015 11:12, Markus R. Kessler wrote to All:   
      
    >> You might want to turn on the tainted repo and install from there.   
      
    > Thanks, Vince! Yes, it's now activated and working.   
      
    > B.t.w., I'm not sure if it is a good idea to add a "foreign   
    > repository". Let's say, add a repo from open Mandriva or PCLinux to   
    > Mageia or vice versa.   
      
   At least with Mageia you are not adding a foreign repo but one that has   
   software that is considered by some to have restrictions in regard to   
   software sources in part not being available such as Nvidea drivers, video   
   player code etc.   
      
   The tainted options come up in the package selector in the sense that you   
   will see more than one item for a given package so you have to look to the   
   right hand side to see where it is coming from - just the same as you need   
   to do to select the X64 version over the i86 one, so the tainted versions   
   are also so shown.   
      
   Easy - well ish there are still a fair number of ommisions offered as I   
   have been finding out when looking for Python5 and QT5 development tools   
   where there are lots of missing elements.   
      
   PS. If you are speaking about Mageia you should only be posting in the   
   usergroup for it and not this redundant / deal distro.   
      
    > Maybe, as long as installing follows some kind of "priority", so that   
    > first the native repositories are checked, and only if there's no such   
    >  package found, then the foreign repos are queried and installed from   
    > them. Or, will this smash the rpm packages database?   
      
    > Thanks, best regards,   
      
    > Markus   
      
      
      
      
      
   Vince   
      
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