> It would not give me many of the important advantages in my list. Go read > it again, please. no. Thanks. > To remove one of that list, you could make Yum/rpm show the source/repo > on normal operations but that would leave a lot of other advantages out of > the picture. - yum does show the source/repo on normal operations - take a look at all of the list outputs. - rpm doesn't have any concept of repository. Nothing, it knows only of individual packages. -sv