Yum -clean all........is that a bad thing?

[Timothy Murphy]

Red Hat wrote:

> Out of curiosity, I did an APT-GET CLEAN and it processed and went back
> to a prompt with no messages or other indications at all.  I also did a
> YUM CLEAN and got the following:
> 
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server - Fedora Linux 2 - i386 - core
> Server - Fedora Linux 2 - i386 - freshrpms
> Server - Fedora Linux 2 - i386 - updates
> Finding updated packages
> Cleaning packages and old headers
> 
> So that looks like it also updates at the same time.

I don't get a message like that.
What version of yum are you using?

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[tim at martha ~]$ sudo yum clean all
Cleaning up Everything
1 headers removed
1 packages removed
6 metadata files removed
3 cache files removed
[tim at martha ~]$ yum --version
2.2.0
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