On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Konstantin Riabitsev wrote: > Tom Diehl wrote: > > Would someone please explain why it would be a bad thing(tm) to do > > yum-update --with-obsoletes all of the time?? > > 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... :) OK, I understand now. Thanks to everyone who answered. ..................Tom
