[Yum-devel] yum-src people
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sun May 29 06:30:32 UTC 2005
> I'm kinda starting to think this should go into yum itself, since
> we're really talking about installing packages by dependencies which is
> pretty much what yum is all about and we'll want to reuse the cli-stuff
> (signature checking, prompting etc) when installing build-deps as well.
You might be right. I'm still a bit wishy-washy about where it should
go.
Here's the crux of my problem:
What's a nice way of describing and having on the command line the
function that does: install-all-the-deps-for-some-package.
What would the command be named? install-deps?
That's what's plaguing me is that it could be very confusing to new
users: "Do I need to just run install or do I have to install-deps to
get the dependencies" etc, etc.
see where I'm going with this? We're running into the problem of the
not-so-advanced user and needing to describe advanced concepts - this is
why I've been thinking of it being outside of yum.
right now we have:
yum [options] < update | install | info | remove | list |
clean | provides | search | check-update | groupinstall |
groupupdate | grouplist | groupinfo | groupremove |
makecache | localinstall | erase | upgrade | whatprovides |
localupdate | resolvedep | shell | deplist >
if I had my options I would probably lose:
localupdate, localinstall, whatprovides, resolvedep, deplist,
check-update and makecache
from the command set just to make it easier to deal with for new folks
and put those into an advanced-mode-script for yum users who know what
they're looking for.
I guess that's something to think about.
thoughts?
-sv
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