On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 12:03 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
The need to make sure that you update rpm or yum before you do 'yum
update' has happened before and I'm sure this isn't the last time that
it will happen either. It just makes sense for a packager to see if
there is an update to itself first. Update itself and THEN do the
updates for everything else.
That's your opinion. The opinion of the people writing the update tools
and preparing the repos and living through such "needs" and really
understanding what is actually going on don't share that opinion.