Want a quick and easy way to check what the Excludes policy on a machine is ? Run this :
wget -q http://centos.karan.org/check_excludes.py -O - | python
It should give you some nice clean output, listing each repository enabled on the machine, along with the exclude setup for that repo. Something like this :
main: []
centos-base - ['perl', 'rsync']
centos-updates - ['perl', 'rsync']
Remember that the "main:" section in yum is the global system/repowide configs - anything listed there would be excluded from all repositories.
I needed it, but its Seth who wrote this snippet of code.
Not even a little credit? hrmph! :) 
Its in there! 
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