[Yum] suggestion: CTRL-C should immediately stop yum

[Garrick Staples]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:11:37PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev alleged:
> On 9/12/06, Menno Smits <menno-yum at freshfoo.com> wrote:
> >In the new version, CTRL-C once during downloads causes a mirror switch;
> >twice in quick succession causes termination. A single CTRL-C at other
> >times should just quit as normal.
> 
> Though I understand the reasons behind this, I don't think this is
> good behaviour, since it differs substantially from the expected
> behaviour of other CLI interfaces. In the user's mind, Ctrl-C means
> "please quit," not "please switch mirrors, this is taking too long."

How about it just prints a message, "Trying next mirror... ctrl-c twice
to exit"?

-- 
Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California
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