yum annoyances

[Brian Gerst]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 17:09 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:58:38AM -0500, Gene C. wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Would it be possible to have some metadata which would flag to yum that the 
>>>package needs to be removed.
>>
>>yum does not know if you want the package removed or not. But it could
>>indicate that none of the repos used for this resolver run provides
>>this package or a package which obsoletes it.
> 
> 
> 
> yum list extras.

The problem with list extras is that it doesn't differentiate when a 
package is extra because a newer version exists or if the package 
doesn't exist in the repo.

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				Brian Gerst