On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 13:51 -0700, Karsten Jeppesen wrote: > Hello Seth, > > Can I ask yum to download something that provides what I specify? > > An example may be better. I may know that I need XFree86-devel. > But XFree86-devel is provided by several packages. XFree86-devel.rpm and > xorg-x11-devel.rpm > and what I really want (but of course don't know) is that it is the > latter I want. (given that I am in an xorg environment) > work is ongoing on a set of yum-utils. programs that use the yum libary module to do obscure tasks like this. stay tuned. -sv
