[Yum-devel] New yum commandline option

[seth vidal]

>   yum --repos='-*,+*dev*,-crazy-stuff-development'
> 
> i.e., the repos option defines a list of filters to apply to the
> configured repos from left to right, with enabled repos prefixed by a
> '+' and disabled repos prefixed by a '-'; the above basically says
> 'disable all repos, then enable the ones that match '*dev*', then
> disable crazy-stuff-development.

you really think that having it as a filter HELPS users understand how
to use it?

cmon - let's not add complexity just to save a trivial amount of typing.

Adding filtered processing for enabling or disabling repositories is
just ridiculous.

Hell, I had to be armtwisted to add commandline enabling or disabling of
repositories at all.

-sv