Is there an easy way to force YUM to reinstall a set of packages?

[Rahul Sundaram]

David Hagood wrote:

> Somewhat off topic: WHY the frotz was YUM chosen over APT for RPM as
> *the* way to update Fedora? APT has a much more mature feature set, and
> by using it you can leverage a degree of commonality with Debian based
> distros.

That was because apt-rpm was unmaintained, didn't support multi-lib etc 
among several other reasons when yum was chosen.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/Apt

Rahul