[Yum-devel] Displaying more information in yum --version

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 14:03 -0400, James Bowes wrote:
> It was suggested today that yum should display more information in 
> --version, something along the lines of what ls --version displays, i.e. 
> Full program name, version number, copyright, and license.
> 
> Is there any interest in this? If so, I'll do up a patch. If not, I, 
> uhm, won't.

I'm not really convinced how it's "useful".  Lots of apps just report
their version (gnome-terminal --version for a try).  Heck, even just
'rpm --version'.

What is the actual value trying to be added here?

Jeremy