[Yum] yum-tool

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri May 23 20:38:01 UTC 2003


> > 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.
> 

This goes farther than I'm comfortable with for fairly specific reasons:
1. it's cluttery
2. it eats inodes (all those symlinks)
3. it makes tab completion hard
4. it means the rpm has to keep up with additions to functionality in
the code

-sv





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