[Yum] overly cautious free space checking?

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 12:30 -0700, Ian Burrell wrote:
> On 10/27/05, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 09:49 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > > hmmm ... no command-line option?  ok.
> >
> > no, there is no commmand line option. Running low on disk space is not
> > exactly a common occurrence and putting EVERYTHING on the command line
> > is just confusing and frustrating for new users.
> >
> >
> 
> Instead of having a specific command-line option for this option, how
> about having a generic command-line option for setting any config file
> option:
> 
> yum --option diskspacecheck=no
> 
> This wouldn't be something that new users would use. It would be handy
> for experts wanting to special case behavior.
> 

ugh - useless clutter.

if you want to add arbitrary command line options you can add a plugin
and have it allow the command line option.

otherwise it's just cruft to deal with one the command line parser.

-sv