[mythtv-users] OT: Fedora repos?

[Dylan R. Semler]

With FC5 coming out on Monday, I'll be doing a few re-installations.  
This time around I'd like to get my yum repositories strait and without 
complications.  Unfortunately, there seems to be some confusion 
regarding enabling ATrpms.

I would like to enable atrpms, along with the RPMForge repositories for 
my 3rd party software, however Stanton-finely warns against it just 
above on this page:
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html#Yum

which I guess is based on this information
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnMahowald/ATrpmsWarning

which seems pretty strong.  However, the atrpms page maintains that it's 
completely compatible with many of the non-livna repositories.  Well, 
the technically say that they are in "cooperation," which doesn't 
necessarily mean that they are compatible.
http://atrpms.net/repos/

However, according to what Axel has said on this list, the only way to 
reliably update myth is through enabling the entire atrpms repo and doing
yum update
yum update myth\* is very bad and can result in problems and therefore 
shouldn't be used

So what does one do?  These people on the fedora sites seem to say that 
atrpms is incompatible with the *core* fedora distribution and "is not 
advised."  However, the atrpms site seems to indicate the contrary, and 
that is is compatible with RPMForge and the like.  Furthermore, Axel 
maintains that the only proper way to update myth is to have the entire 
repository enabled in yum.

What have people been doing?  Is enabling atrpms entirely not as 
dangerous as people make it out to be, or should I just forget atrpms 
and build from source?

Dylan