> You could have two packages obsoleting each-other. This is, > actually, a real case, as zebra obsoletes gated, and gated obsoletes > zebra. If you did --with-obsoletes every time and had gated > installed, it would be replaced with zebra the next time yum runs. > Then with gated again. Then with zebra. Then with gated. Then with > zebra. Then with gated... :) there are worse cases large obsoleting arcs foo obsoletes bar bar obsoletes baz baz obsoletes foo :) it happens -sv