Re: yum - lack of features

[Adam Gibson <agibson ptm com>]

John Summerfied wrote:
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> I've been through downloading this from here, that from there and 
> generally it leads to pain. At one point I had  a working but borked (as 
> in essentially unmaintainable) Debian system through adding 
> complementary repositories any of which could provide updates for any 
> package on my system.

I wish yum supported excludes per repository for that reason.  I 
sometimes want to use a repository but dont want that 3rd party repo to 
ever update some core packages.  Placing an excludes in a section for a 
specific repo doesn't seem to work.  It would be nice to have the 
opposite of that too so that you could state that only the packages I 
list here should be updated from this specific repository(sometimes you 
just want a few packages from a certian repo.