[Yum] Re: Usernames, Passwords and yum

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 23:33 -0700, Michael Stenner wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:17:36PM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
> > Unless they have root access they already cannot run yum.
> 
> Well, they can run "yum list" and "yum search", etc.  But basically, I
> agree with you.  yum has limited value as a user app.
> 

It's not obvious to me what the benefit of yum is to a user who is not
the admin. I guess they can query packages and look for info but if
they're not going to install/remove/update something I don't really see
the point of a user dealing with it.

thoughts?
-sv