yum - lack of features

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:57:53AM +0100, Dan Track wrote:
> 1) Can't force a reinstall of package

There's a few complications with how this should behave -- should it put
config files back to default, for example -- but in general, yeah, seems
like a useful feature that isn't there.


> 2) Can't force a package to install if there are some minor dependencies

A.k.a "doesn't let you break your system". :)

> 3) Can't fetch a package

Check out yumdownloader from the yum-utils package.



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