How can I get more concise output from yum?

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By default, yum search displays the name, version, architecture, and a short summary of packages that match the given criteria.

# yum search glibc

glibc.i686                               2.5-12                 installed
Matched from:
glibc
The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by
multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk spa...

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