useing up2date to get software

[Law Horne]

Well I don't think this has been discussed before. But I was looking at 
all the talk about what up2date is in relevance to yum and apt. Now 
understanding that the new channels that come with the latest version of 
up2date are actually  yum repos, and that they contain all the software 
for fedora. My question basically is as follows, is there a way to 
download and install programs not currently on your system within 
up2date( I realize you can do this if you put the channels in yum)? Or 
is up2date strictly(at least at this time) for updates?