[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Formatting changes for the transaction summary
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Wed Feb 14 19:14:30 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 15:16 -0500, James Bowes wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
>
> > so this is the one place where we didn't truncate b/c people felt like
> > they really wanted to know what was going to happen on their systems,
> > line-wrapping be damned.
> >
> > and I can sorta see their point.
>
> Yeah, me too. The real fix is to not make package version numbers so
> !@#@ long.
>
> It's curious, because today a bug came in about repository names getting
> truncated when you run "( echo repo list ; echo exit ) | yum shell"
okay, just so we're clear, that's dumb.
there are simpler ways to get that data into the shell.
>
> I wonder if there should be no truncation at all, and tab separated
> fields, etc. Or maybe it just doesn't matter in the long run.
yah, I'm torn. It probably doesn't matter much in the long run.
-sv
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