[Yum] RPM/YUM book and suggestions for the yum(8) man page

[Andrew Ford]

As I posted back in April, I am writing a book for O'Reilly on RPM and 
YUM.  The timescales have slipped somewhat due to the demands of the day 
job, but it is starting to come together.  Apologies to those who 
volunteered to review the book - I will have something to look at soon now.

While trying to get my head around everything to do with yum I realized 
that the man page is rather indigestible.  It lists about 30 different 
commands in no discernible order.  One could organize the commands into 
three categories: (1) reporting (on packages, groups, repos and 
dependencies), (2) package installation, upgrade and removal, and (3) 
housekeeping and miscellaneous.  I would be happy to modify the man page 
if people would like to get an idea of how it might be restructured.

Andrew

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