[Leaplist] someone explain why YUM does not do as it is told?

[ray]

on my laptop, seeing as i can not use my wifi card i plugged into eth0, 
i figured i would run yum update as i have not in a very long time.

well it keeps craping out on Processing Dependency: 
libjaspter-1.701.so.1 is neede by package ImageMagick

ok no big deal, ill just yum remove ImageMagick, nope can't do that as 
it will remove kaffeine and xine.lib  nope not going to do that.

so yum --exclude=ImageMagick update

well --exclude DOES NOT WORK.  i have tried yum update --exclude, and 
yum --exclude it does not matter were i put the --exclude, it continues 
to try to find the dependency for ImageMagic even though it is supposed 
to NOT BE UPGRADING that package, it has been told to exclude, and as 
far as i can tell from reading the man page that is the same thing as 
being told to ignore that package.  yet why does it continue to try to 
upgrade that package?

very frustrated and a bit tired.  yet again why i so much prefer apt 
over yum any day of the week.  no dont try to get me to install and 
reconfigure apt on a Cent box, not worth the hassle.  i just wan yum to 
do what it is told.

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