[Yum] Requesting required resources

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 13:51 -0700, Karsten Jeppesen wrote:
> Hello Seth,
> 
> Can I ask yum to download something that provides what I specify?
> 
> An example may be better. I may know that I need XFree86-devel.
> But XFree86-devel is provided by several packages. XFree86-devel.rpm and 
> xorg-x11-devel.rpm
> and what I really want (but of course don't know) is that it is the 
> latter I want. (given that I am in an xorg environment)
> 

work is ongoing on a set of yum-utils.

programs that use the yum libary module to do obscure tasks like this.

stay tuned.
-sv