[CentOS] yum issues

Karanbir Singh wrote:

>
> This issue has been raised more than just a few times on the yum and 
> yum-devel mailing lists and generally accepted as a bad idea. You 
> might want to look through the history there and if you so like, 
> re-raise as an issue..
>

What, in a nutshell, was the rub?

Cheers,