[Yum] Re: Horrible response to keyboardInterrupt

[CAI Qian]

Hi,

--- "Mihai T. Lazarescu" <mtlagm at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:25:34AM -0700, CAI Qian wrote:
> 
> > > Coming onto a user list and acting like the sky is falling and
> > > everyone
> > > needs to drop what they're doing and work on your problem is not
> > > going
> > > to win you any friends.  I recommend you find a way to
> participate in
> > > the yum community instead of bashing it.
> > 
> > Whether winning friends or not is not my concern, I am worry about
> > other users may have the same pains.
> 
> That's quite unlikely.  Savvy command line users know alternate
> ways to stop a program, whereas GUI users won't see these
> problems anyway.
>

If yum provides the feature to abandon an operation, users expect to
use it, report related bugs, and someone eventually could fix those
bugs. It is also a feature which exists in some other package tools.
Otherwise, the document shall be added this information, says "The
program will not response to CTRL-C. Please use kill(1) to terminate
the program". 

I have seldom used GUI tools for it. However, I guess they could have
some of those problems, if they allow to cancel operations. Which GUI
tool are you talking about?

Cai Qian

> Cheer up.
> 
> Mihai
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