[Yum] yum list available weird output
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 6 15:02:33 UTC 2009
On Wed, 6 May 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:
> Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 6 May 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>> The man page says that 'installed' is a valid context and that's been in
>>> there for quite a long while from what I can see. Why do you want to put
>>> more restriction into this tool? Yum can list installed as well as
>>> available packages. Repoquery has been able and should continue to be able
>>> to do the same thing.
>>
>> B/c it is not called 'rpmdb query' and it confuses results when you look up
>> a package and it spits back out something from your local rpmdb.
>>
>> So restricting it to only doing what it is named for makes the most sense
>> to me.
>>
> Who cares what the tool name is? The tool has a good set of functionality and
> to now start restricting that functionality b/c it doesn't exactly match the
> name of the tool is crazy. Maybe the tool should have been named 'pkgquery'
> or something like that but really who cares. I don't want to see a good tool
> neutered because of a naming issue. Please don't do this. It's clear that the
> author intended this tool to have the scope outlined in the man page and that
> includes working against the installed package set as well as the repos.
The author can change things if he sees fit, he has check in access for a
reason but it doesn't match to my mind which is why I changed it.
-sv
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