seth vidal wrote: >>Does anyone else have any opinions on this? Maybe I've been brainwashed? >> >> > >Alternatively you use groupupdate and just plugin new things to a group >as 'default' or 'mandatory' then when a user can: > >yum groupupdate 'carwyn group of fun' > >and get all the packages you want them to have. > > Hmm, I suppose you could have a standard group that you then automatically do a groupupdate on every night/bootup. Would new packages in the group be installed and packages removed from the group uninstalled? This is is nothing to do with version numbers, I agree with you on those being a bad thing to specify in general. Although there are cases where you do need to be able to hold a package at a specific version (say you want laptops to catch up with desktops but not install the very latest version because it breaks some machines). Don't get me wrong, I like yum :-) I ditched apt-rpm for it and use it at home. I want to use it at work too though but can't without addressing some of these issues. Carwyn
