diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 9c8a0ac5..d30b9260 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+* Thu Mar 15 2007 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com>
+- Use yum's built in exclude handling
+
 * Tue Mar 14 2007 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com>
 - Do things faster/smarter if we've only asked for one disc
 
diff --git a/pypungi/gather.py b/pypungi/gather.py
index 0ce57237..c735fbbf 100755
--- a/pypungi/gather.py
+++ b/pypungi/gather.py
@@ -218,9 +218,8 @@ class Gather(yum.YumBase):
         searchlist.extend(addlist)
 
         # Remove the excludes
-        for exclude in excludelist:
-            for x in range(searchlist.count(exclude)): # why is there no list.removeall?
-                searchlist.remove(exclude)
+        self.conf.exclude.extend(excludelist)
+        self.excludePackages()
 
         # Make the search list unique
         searchlist = yum.misc.unique(searchlist)