Yet another frustration with Fedora package management

[Hedayat Vatankhah]

/*Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>*/ wrote on Sun, 04 Jan 2015 
19:11:01 +0100:
>
> 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
Have you read my first email carefully? yum.conf is only used by yum, 
DNF and PackageKit/Gnome software don't care about it.

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