rpm error message, some more detail would be nice.

[Naoki <naoki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When doing something with rpm that should really be done as root could 
it please say for example
"error: can't create transaction lock, do you need to be root", or maybe 
a permission problem message instead of :

$ rpm -e kernel-2.6.5-1.358 kernel-2.6.8-1.541
error: can't create transaction lock

How would I formally request a more useful error message?

For the first half second I think, "huh, what's wrong", half a second 
after that I throw a 'sudo' in front of it.

-n.