Hi Troy, I'm with Martin on this one: While I do understand why you want to have a working default configuration and a working update mechanism installed by default, it shouldn't be a hassle to opt out for sites with many systems, their own mirror, and/or their own way to apply updates. If I got it right, all I have to do in order to opt out is to provide an RPM which provides one or more of yum-{conf,autoupdate,kernelmodule}? Fine. Anyone who doesn't want those should really be able to do this. On the choice of yum releases: As long as it works and there are no changes to invocation or configuration (preferrably not even upon minor updates), whatever you consider the best one certainly is. If there are incompatibilities with previous releases, there should be a significant benefit due to an upgrade and it shouldn't happen in between minor releases. Examples of what I would consider a "significant benefit" : - performance improvement > 25% - additional, much wanted functionality (smarter resolver, ...) - true reduction of workload on developers/maintainers Cheers, Stephan -- Stephan Wiesand DESY - DV - Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany