[Yum] Re: Horrible response to keyboardInterrupt

[CAI Qian]

Hi,

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

> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 04:32:28AM -0700, CAI Qian wrote:
> 
> > --- "Mihai T. Lazarescu" <mtlagm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > One of the most recurring answers for those that dislike the
> > > free (as in no cost and as free will) maintainers of open
> > > source packages is: wait or do it yourself or hire someone to
> > > do it for you.  And I think this is a fair answer.  It's value
> > > added to let know of bugs but it's of no use to ask they be
> > > fixed according to your agenda.
> > 
> > There is no agenda. I want to let developers aware of that it is a
> > painful problem for users like me. Maybe because I was a Debian
> user
> > before. I have experienced the efficient with CTRL-C in APT and the
> > important to be able to abandon operations when the number of
> available
> > packages have been increased a lot.
> 
> I think now everybody on the list is quite aware of the problem.
> 
> You should also consider that, even though there may be yum
> users and skilled programmers on the list, no one seems to
> agree with the urge to divert resources to fix it.
> 

Who knows? Anyway, That is not my problem. I finished my part.

> > > The Ctrl-C issue of yum was worse, gradually improving
> > > over time.  At any moment I was a lot more more interested
> > > in seeing yum getting faster, stable, and feature rich rather
> > > than to nit pick on secondary, easy work-around shortcomings.
> > > I believe this way me and the community as a whole benefit most
> > > from the yum developers volunteered knowledge, time, and effort.
> > 
> > It depends. If developers care about usability, it should not be
> the
> > secondary. Use kill(1) to work around the problem is not an
> acceptable
> > option from the usability point of view. 
> 
> Regardless the long standing "usability" issue, yum seemed to
> gather momentum all this time among users and distributions
> alike.
> 

I am sure there are lots of positive things have been added over time.

Cai Qian

> Mihai
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