[Yum] yum-tool

Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com
Fri May 23 17:35:05 UTC 2003


And having more than one man page isn't all that bad.  One merely needs to refer to the SEE ALSO section.

Although it's an extreme example, I refer to the man pages for Perl.  Would anyone really want to make that One Big Man Page?

jc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: seth vidal [mailto:skvidal at phy.duke.edu]
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 7:21 AM
> To: Troy Dawson
> Cc: yum at linux.duke.edu
> Subject: Re: [Yum] yum-tool
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 09:01, Troy Dawson wrote:
> > Hi Seth,
> > I think it's a good idea.  My only hesitation is that you 
> leave the ones that 
> > are currently in yum, in yum.  Though they could be 
> parralled in yum-tool.
> > 
> > I also like the idea of just one name with different 
> options (yum-tool versus 
> > yum-search, yum-checkheaders, etc...).  That way people 
> only have to remember 
> > one main command, and only one man page to look at.  The 
> phrase RTFMP just 
> > doesn't apply if you can't figure out which man page to read.
> > 
> 
> but this is just like:
> redhat-config[tab][tab]
> 
> :)
> 
> -sv
> 
> 
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