[Yum-devel] transaction listing

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 01:13:06PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > Hmmmm. I know you're opposed to screen-scraping, but there ought to be
> > some way to ask to show full names and versions. This'd be especially
> > important in the case of long package names like selinux-policy-targeted
> > and selinux-policy-targeted-sources (or something even longer) -- the
> > truncation could actually cut off the part that distinguishes which
> > package is getting installed.
> this is where you should use plugins.
> a pre-transaction plugin should let you scrape out that data.

Yeah, and I'm excited about plugins for some of my other crack-ridden
desires, but: a person runs yum update, sees that the filename (or version)
gets truncated, thinks, hmmm, I'd like to see what that actually is -- that
person shouldn't be told that they need to go write a plugin to do this.

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