strange results

[Neal Becker]

Why does smart want to remove pam-devel when it could have been upgraded?  I 
also tried this same thing with yum and it did want to upgrade pam-devel 
instead of removing it:

sudo smart upgrade 'kde*'
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Computing transaction...

Upgrading packages (27):
  arts               kdeartwork         kdegraphics        kdelibs-devel      
kdenetwork-devel   kdesdk-devel       net-snmp-libs
  hpijs              kdebase            kdegraphics-devel  kdemultimedia      
kdepim             kdeutils           pam
  hplip              kdebase            kdelibs            kdemultimedia      
kdepim-devel       kdeutils-devel     pam
  kdeaddons          kdebase-devel      kdelibs            kdenetwork         
kdesdk             kdevelop

Installed packages (5):
  kdebindings           libsane-hpaio         ruby                  ruby-libs             
xscreensaver-extras

Removed packages (2):
  pam-devel  pam-devel

245.5MB of package files are needed. 32.2MB will be used.

Confirm changes? (Y/n): n


[nbecker at nbecker4 ~]$ rpm -q pam-devel
pam-devel-0.80-14
pam-devel-0.80-14
[nbecker at nbecker4 ~]$ sudo smart upgrade pam pam-devel
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Upgrading packages (4):
  pam-0.99.2.1-3 at i386              pam-0.99.2.1-3 at x86_64            
pam-devel-0.99.2.1-3 at i386        pam-devel-0.99.2.1-3 at x86_64

2.0MB of package files are needed. 816.1kB will be freed.

Confirm changes? (Y/n):