On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:22 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> Don't know yum.

Frontend to RPM, like apt, but less featured.

> Do some of those pre-built packages have a way of specifying
> local preferences?  Or is that only with the source packages.

Sure, you just can't change compile-time options, like what user to use.