According to John Lange:
Its too bad that it still tries to use all those command line tools as so many of them are buggy, out-of-date and/or unsupported.
Which ones in particular? I can't comment on the various trans-coding utilities, as I've never used them, but cdrecord, cdrdao, and vcdimager have all worked fine for me, seem to be supported, and continue to be enhanced.
It also means you have to chase down dozens of add-on files if you want to burn anything.
Yeah, they could have done a better job of listing dependencies, I guess, so that you could let yum do the job for you.
Of course, even following their instructions on using yum under Fedora didn't work for me - yum complained about required packages that it couldn't find (id3lib and libmad). So, I'm back to doing it the old fashioned way: manually fetching and installing packages, hand-tweaking spec files and rebuilding RPM's.