Yet another frustration with Fedora package management

[Reindl Harald]

Am 04.01.2015 um 19:02 schrieb Hedayat Vatankhah:
> /*Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>*/ wrote on Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:58:32
> -0600:
>> Hedayat Vatankhah wrote:
>>
>>> <...>
>>> Suggestion: Please add a single configuration file to configure common
>>> package manager options
>> I think you answered your own question => modify the .repo files
>
> Thank you!!! Yes, I know that I can do it, but its nothing but
> ridiculous. And, as I said, this is an unsafe approach: first I excluded
> it from one repo, then I discovered that I should add another
> repository, and then another one. What if this package is in 50 repos?
> Or you want to set metadata_expire for 50 repos?
> I wonder if having a single packages.conf is THAT hard!!!

WTF don't you read other answers before continue to rant?
just edit "yum.conf" instead demand a useless "packages.conf" 
duplicating what is already there

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