Hello,

I can recommend three yum plug-ins that I've added to my SL4.6 workstation:

1)  yum-fastestmirror to speed up downloads.

2)  yum-installonlyn to keep the clutter on the hard drive to a minimum.

3)  yum-protectbase to keep other repositories (dag) from breaking my installation.

Given SL's emphasis on stability, I think yum-protectbase should be installed by default.  The dag repo has some nice bells and whistles, but it also has newer versions of packages (e.g. IceWM) that can overwrite packages from SL repos or that fail to install because of unmet dependencies.
 
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> Hi,
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> We are trying to put together intelligent policy for yum software
> updates for workstations and servers.  We would appreciate anyone
> willing to share how the control yum updates for servers & workstations.

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