Martin, I'm sure there are easier things to prune than yum itself. I was simply asking whether yum's transacation-completion machinery was applicable here. In the meantime, I suspect that we will recommend the use of a temporary off-NAND swap partition or swap-file by the people who need it. Michael -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list