banning package installations

i recently decided to take a stand against mono and all the programs that use mono and c sharp as a dependency.

the reasons i took the decision were basically that i felt mono was invading the gnome desktop. and i am not too sure what is going on over at novell for me to be absolutely confortable with mono, moonlight et al

so how did i take the stand? as per 'man yum.conf', i configure yum not to download anything with mono or sharp in its name. the end result was a new line in /etc/yum.conf

  exclude=mono* *sharp*

and now i cant install banshee. oh joy. the glee. i prefer amarok. and now back to our regular programming schedule.

you can do the same to other programs too, just list them on one "exclude=" line seperated by a space.