On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, seth vidal wrote: > On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 07:22, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > to be far more specific regarding my previous post, if i have no current > > "xine" rpm installed, what should happen if i type > > > > # yum update xine > > > > as it stands now, nothing gets updated (good), but yum takes several > > seconds to download/update header information. why? one would think that > > yum should immediately realize that i can't update xine since it's not on > > my system. that response should be immediate, and shouldn't require > > downloading or updating any header info, no? > > one would think that, and yet, one would be wrong. yeah, i'm getting used to that. <sigh>. rday
