[Yum] more specific question about updating

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, seth vidal wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 07:22, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   to be far more specific regarding my previous post, if i have no current
> > "xine" rpm installed, what should happen if i type
> > 
> > # yum update xine
> > 
> >   as it stands now, nothing gets updated (good), but yum takes several
> > seconds to download/update header information. why?  one would think that
> > yum should immediately realize that i can't update xine since it's not on
> > my system.  that response should be immediate, and shouldn't require
> > downloading or updating any header info, no?
> 
> one would think that, and yet, one would be wrong.

yeah, i'm getting used to that.  <sigh>.

rday