Rember Yast in the old days?

Anybody recall how yast used to allow you to brows an arbitrary file structure looking at rpms? It would tell you if the rpm you were looking at was installed, new than an installed rpm, etc. I believe it would also resolve (or at least indicate) conflicts and dependencies to some extent. That was really nice to have. I expected them to put it back in after they got the QT wrapper finished. It still seems to be missing. There is an option to import a list of rpms from disk, but I have no idea how to form that list. Has anybody worked with this feature? STH