[Yum] yum-tool

[nathan r. hruby]

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:

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

True.

> 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?
> 

No.  But seperete yum-tool-command programs is opposite of yum's current 
mode f operation.  It's contrary to the way things work currently.

I don't understand why we can't have a yum-tool that understands verbs but 
also is able to implement verb based the name of the called program (much 
liek the way the startup scrtipts are handled, then everybody can have it 
their way: There's a yum-tool command, but there can be symlinks back to 
yum-tool for each verb it understands and presenst it's self like a 
command.

-n

> 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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