On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 23:09:44 -0400 (EDT), duncan brown wrote: > i think he's really looking more along the lines of a random package he > just downloaded into his home directory. That would be like rpm option --aid, but with yum taking all known packages into consideration, too. A "random package" may depend on a random repository yum does not know about, however. It may even be incompatible with the distribution. So preferably, a package is not downloaded manually, but downloaded with yum.