Talk:Yellow dog Updater, Modified

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[edit] gpgkey and other matters of what YUM does

It would be nice if this page succinctly described some of the details of what YUM does behind the scenes, such as the fact that it uses gpgkey to perform signature verification when downloading packages. I don't think it needs in-depth explanations of this behavior, but if someone (for instance) wanted to know whether there was any kind of signature/hash comparison going on to provide behind the scenes assurance that YUM won't just happily download malware without at least trying to check it against a digital signature, it would be helpful if they came to this page and found a sentence like "YUM provides signature verification behind the scenes for all package downloads via gpgkey." Unfortunately, I have stared at the page for four or five minutes and still haven't come up with a likely place to stick information like that. -- Apotheon (talk) 17:59, 11 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Repository links

I don't think there should be repository links on this page. This article is about *what is* yum, not a man page or a doc for yum. This is the reason why I have removed all links that do not deal with the question of "what is yum" nor provide further information about the project. We can't possibly provide a list of links to all existing repositories, so why single out one or two? --Mr. Icon 23:53, 10 February 2006 (UTC)


[edit] ydl

i got confused with yellow dog linux because I'm dumb —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.90.182.183 (talk • contribs) 00:11, 3 September 2006 (UTC-7)

[edit] Infobox

I added an Infobox. Marycontrary 19:35, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] dependency hell

I think it's POV to present dependency hellas the only link in the see also section. It reflects negatively on yum. Maybe better some links to apt, rpm, etc. and the link to dependency hell in a section with criticism. I am going to remove the link. --Ben T/C 16:03, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Synaptic

Is YUM similar to Synaptic ?. --Nopetro (talk) 13:30, 13 February 2008 (UTC)