> For WIW i had (earlier) sugested packageing 'yum20' as a separate > package (similar to gcc32 etc). There was a period of time during > yum-2.1 releases that I wanted to go back to yum-2.0 - due to missing > features. I solved this by installing 2.0 from source. > > But the solution adopted was to merge yum-arch in yum-2.1 - and > provide only repository side support for both versions. > > Now we have the bizzare senario with 'yum-arch' being part of > 'yum-2.1.x.rpm' - but it won't won't work with 'yum-2.1.x'. A > separate package 'createreop' should be used for 'yum-2.1.x' > > Now that 'yum20' is a no-no, how about placing 'yum-arch' in a > separate rpm - that doesn't get installed by default? > I put yum-arch in yum 2.1 as a favor to some folks at red hat who said they needed it available in FC3. that's all. -sv
