[Yum] Regarding the insert/append bug

[Michael Stenner]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:14:15PM -0800, Miles Egan wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 15:15, Michael Stenner wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:06:45PM -0800, Miles Egan wrote:
> > > Couldn't you just throw the yum libs in /usr/lib/site-python/yum for the
> > > same effect?
> > 
> > elmo$ python -c 'import sys, string; print string.join(sys.path, "\n")'
> > 
> > /usr/lib/python1.5/
> > /usr/lib/python1.5/plat-linux-i386
> > /usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk
> > /usr/lib/python1.5/lib-dynload
> > /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages
> 
> Ok.  Gotcha.  On rh 8.0 with python 2.2.1 /usr/lib/site-python is in the
> path, but I guess that doesn't help with 7.x.
> 
> It would still be nice if yum lived in yum.* in the python namespace
> though.

I agree and I'm pretty sure Seth does, too.  It's a fairly radical
change, though, so it's probably best done when 1.5.2 gets
"abandoned" or some other major event occurs.

Note: not radical for people who run the yum executable, but for those
that access the libs directly (if there are any).

					-Michael

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