DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

[Tom Horsley]

>If you want to remove specific packages, you can use the RPM command
>directly. But it is not as nice as using yum, because it will not
>offer to remove the packages that depend on the RPM you are removing.

Right - that's why I like to use yum (disabling the repos did work,
so now I'm busy removing a bunch of junk I never use so I can
avoid loading updates if updates ever work again :-).