On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 11:16 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote: > # yum clean all I always dislike that advice, it's using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut. For those who want to keep their cache, they lose a lot, especially if they're unfamiliar with what that'll do. And they'll have to download quite a lot of headers, the next time they do a yum update, for yum to work out dependencies. It's a very fair bet that unrelated packages, that'll get wiped out that way, have nothing to do with whatever problem the user was trying to resolve. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
