A few ideas.

[Callum Lerwick]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 12:50 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
> yum -C  removes all network activity and uses only the local cache so
> unless you cache the packages locally as well.. you cant easily use
> yum -C to do installs or updates.. its very useful for check-update,
> list, search, and provides  functionality."
> 
> The last paragraph intrigues me. May be that is why we do not have
> 'yum -C ...' as the default behaviour.

Yes, this behavior makes the -C option mostly useless.
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