Thank you for packaging this!
That's true, I think the better idea here will be to update to the newest Armadillo 8 version.
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Ah, thank you for pointing that out. I normally maintain packages that don't have any dependencies, so I forget about that. I need to rebuild all the EPEL7 packages that depend on Armadillo and resubmit.
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