[Yum-devel] repoquery - other stuff

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue May 31 16:23:24 UTC 2005


On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:29:45PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > No particular reason why not, just needs adding. Actually I've been
> > pondering whether repoquery should use it's own private cache in users
> > home directory when not running as root, there's no reason to require root
> > for repoquery. Ditto for some other yum-utils as well.
> I've mulled that a few times - I think a lot of users would be a bit
> irritated if they suddenly had to deal with 30+MB of cruft in their
> homedir :)

Also, a lot of *sysadmins* would be irritated if their users' homedirs all
grew by 30-40mb.


> It might be reasonable to have a nice error message out to the console
> telling the user what they, or their sysadmin, need to run to update the
> cache.

Yeah. This confused me a lot at first with yum, and I should know better.

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