On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 12:26:34AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > the scripting part could be tricky but not impossible - I think having a > yum list not-from-repositories would be fine - it wouldn't add pain to > the command line options b/c it is secondary argument to list and its > not intrusive. > > the only difficult parts would be providing a good list for you in a > sensible format. > > I was thinking maybe making the list pkgs command do intelligent things > with the -d levels - so that if you do a -d 2 its the normal columned > output, but -d 1 is csv'd list, that way its more parseable. I don't think I like this way of doing it. Currently the -d levels mean "how much info", not "what format" and I think it should be kept that way. If you want to implement a new option like --format (list|csv|xml) then fine, but I think mucking with the -d levels would just be confusing. Honestly, I'm not sure how much it matters, though. As Andrew points out, it's not all that hard to parse what's currently there. -Michael -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxx Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
