Description of problem: Show overall status such as the total number of packages available in the repo, packages installed, packages available as updates etc Additional info: Synaptic does this at it's toolbar and IIRC provides a summary option too.
Can we get this information from yum? Do you think such information is useful to the user?
# yum list lists every package in all the enabled repositories # yum list installed lists installed ones # yum list available lists non installed ones # yum list extras shows packages installed that are not part of the enabled repositories. # package-cleanup (yum-utils) has a number of options to show issues like duplicate packages in the repositories I find a good summary useful. Might ask on list whether others find this a useful feature too.
I don't think we need to show this data, sorry.