[Yum] aside: beginner-level questions

[Robert P. J. Day]

  i'm hoping that my low-level questions are not overly annoying -- as i
mentioned previously, i'm trying to write a newbie HOWTO that i'm going to
incorporate as part of a much larger RH linux courseware manual, so this
necessitates imagining every question that might come up in a classroom
and knowing that i could answer it.

  i'm sure that, if i knew python, i could just RTFS, but python is still
on my great-to-learn-someday list.  until then, it's pretty much the
man page and lots of experimentation.

rday