> This situation is totally unacceptable. In fact, it is so troubling that > it negates all the effort jef and seth have put in on rpm and yum. Thus > they must commit hari-kari to restore the honor of fedora. So, afaict you're either kidding or you're a jerk. I'm going to assume you're kidding. :) at this level there's nothing yum is doing at all. I can _fix_ it by making the install of xml-commons\* a trueinstall and manually removing the older xml-commons packages but that kinda defeats the purpose of HAVING an update mode at all. -sv