On 2007-06-21, 12:31 GMT, Kevin Kofler wrote: > * better handling of broken dependencies: apt-get dist-upgrade > can automatically remove packages which have broken > dependencies (of course it asks first!), and apt can also do > a partial upgrade if some of the packages in the updates > repository have broken dependencies. With yum, you'll have fun > with manually removing packages in the first case and --exclude > in the second. Don't want to fight on any side of this perenial religious war, but just to note that package-cleanup --problems (package-cleanup is in yum-utils package) works pretty well for the first issue. Not sure about the other one (I would try --disablerepo or --exclude, or maybe that there is some plugin for that, don't know). Matej