[Yum] dependency loop exceeded

[Nick Marsh]

# yum -y update XFree86
Gathering package information from servers
Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 8.0 base
Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 8.0 updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
......identical dependency loop exceeded
package XFree86-twm needs XFree86 = 4.2.0 (not provided)
package XFree86-twm needs XFree86 = 4.2.0 (not provided)
package XFree86-xdm needs XFree86 = 4.2.0 (not provided)
package XFree86-xdm needs XFree86 = 4.2.0 (not provided)

WTH? I htought YUM was supposed to handle that. How can I fix this?

Thanks.


nick marsh
nmarsh1 at mac.com