> hmm:-((( > for me it was a regular thing to do a > rpm -Fvh *.rpm Freshen installs a lot more than the expected amount of stuff. I stopped using Freshen b/c it catches that you "need" a lot more things than you do. > in the updates directory and I _like_ the features that I dont have to > write all packages. the same is apply when a new security updates comes > out for samba eg: > rpm -Uvh samba*.rpm > so IMHO multiple argument is a good thing! > may be some kind of refresh (-F) would be useful to yum too. in this > case postcondition of > yum update pkg1 pkg2 pkg3 This is why I like 'yum update' (no args) > anyway I'm a lazy man and I don't like to type so much so I prefer the > gnu style options (both long and sort version): > - who would like to be readable type: > rpm --upgrade pkg > - those lazy just type > rpm -U pkg > so I like to see short options for info, list, update ... > I know this is just cosmetic, but... The command names are short enough and adding a shorter version will promote more confusion and will just add code the command line parsing. In short: No, I don't want to add "short versions" of everything. -sv
