Troy Dawson wrote on 11/13/2009 8:53 AM:
> P. Larry Nelson wrote:
> ...
> 
>>
>> IMO, yum-utils should be part of the default yum package for SL.
>> Is there a good reason they are not? [Troy/Connie question]
>>
> 
> We try to install by default what get's installed by default in a normal 
> RHEL 5 system.  yum-utils does *not* get installed by default in a 
> normal RHEL 5 system.
> 
> Troy

Ah.  I was inferring from Steve Timm's posting that yum-utils *was*
a part of RHEL 5 and that it was left out of SL for some reason.
Apologies.

Thanks Troy!
- Larry

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