Ideas for yum

[Martin Marques]

When I first used yum, FC1, it did lots of things I really didn't like, 
being the worst the download of all the repo metadata each time yum was 
executed. Very bad behavior.

At that time I started using smart which was quite promising but now I 
see it as a real hog. Don't know if it's due to smart, rpm or the rpm 
meta data structure (XML parsing can be quite resource consuming).

So I tried yum yesterday and found some nice things since.

Three things I found lacking (of haven't found how to configure) in 
latest versions of yum are:

1) Preferences for repositories, so that a package in more then one 
repository will always try to keep the one from a specific repository. I 
saw an option in yum.conf, pkgpolicy, which is not documented, and the 
little doc I found on the web wasn't very enlightening.

2) Search gives to much information: One line with a brief description 
is enough. And it repeats it self: If the same package is in core, 
updates and freshrpms I get it three times.

3) A policy of installation would be good to have, so befor installing a 
package you know where it comes from, and what installed package will be 
replaced in case of an upgrade.

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