> b) If yum STILL fails the check for disk space, and has several > packages to install that are themselves quite large (and are in fact one > reason that the disk space check still fails, allowing for the > possibility that /var is or is not in the same partition that the > install is tight on space in) it would be lovely if yum would try to > discern a pattern for installation that would still permit the install > to proceed. This is a more difficult request, but two immediate > approaches, each embodying a certain degree of AI and arcanity, suggest > themselves: This has been requested before and it gives me the heebie-jeebies. There is A LOT of room to cause death and pain to a user if this were done. I can say that I'd never want either of the suggestions you gave to be done automatically. -sv
