kdm problems on f13 update

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 05/30/2010 09:26 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>
>> After doing fedora version upgrades, it's always a good idea to refresh
>> the default pkg list via
>> yum groupinstall kde-desktop
>> (repeat process for any installed desktops) to ensure you have all the
>> newest, default package set installed.
>
> I always follow your advice ...
> so I did the above, and found it installed 100MB (70 packages).
> But I don't understand why?
> Why didn't "yum update" (which I run every couple of days) find them?
>
>

"yum update" only updates installed packages. It won't install new 
packages unless the updated packages have new dependencies that require 
new packages to be installed.