> NB: yum even fails on rss-glx because it doesn't think of updating
> ImageMagick-{c++,perl} which require the matching library.
>
I'd encourage you to try:
http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/daily/2.0/yum-2.0.3-20031015.noarch.rpm
I believe the problem you mention above has been fixed there.
-sv