[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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