[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Add long variants for all command line options.

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Terje Røsten wrote:

> talking about options and commands, I find the output then doing something 
> wrong
> (that is showing --help) a bit long and confusing, if you do
>
> $ yum instal emacs
>
> it would be nice if yum printed something like:
>
> "yum: instal is not a command. Please use yum --help."
>
> And then let yum --help list all commands, with something like
>
> "See yum help COMMAND for  more information at the end."

This is probably a good idea.
the yum --help output is long and we need to keep from blowing it out 
there everytime someone fatfingers a command.

-sv