[Yum-devel] new simple "protectyum" plugin

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 06:42:12PM -0400, James Bowes wrote:
> > The main question we have is what to do with longer-than-80-columns output.
> > The above approach feels kind of icky. What's the right thing to do here?
> Maybe yum (the command line program) or other api consumers can be
> smart about line wrapping the exception text when they display it?

It does really seem like whatever is doing the displaying of the message
knows best how the line breaks should fall.

> > And with that resolved, I think this'd be great to have in yum-utils (and
> > probably on by default for many distros, but that's a later bridge...).
> Agreed. This feels similar to installonlyn. Hey, where does
> installonlyn live, anyways?

In the wrong place. :)


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