On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 23:33 -0700, Michael Stenner wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:17:36PM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > > Unless they have root access they already cannot run yum. > > Well, they can run "yum list" and "yum search", etc. But basically, I > agree with you. yum has limited value as a user app. > It's not obvious to me what the benefit of yum is to a user who is not the admin. I guess they can query packages and look for info but if they're not going to install/remove/update something I don't really see the point of a user dealing with it. thoughts? -sv