>> in addition, it would be useful if the "list installed" variation also accepted package names or globs, as does "rpm -qa 'glob'". yes, i know you can pipe it to grep, but still ... << I'd suggest that yum is correct already. See: The Art of Unix Programming by Eric Steven Raymond http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ More specifically: http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html >> ... Looking at the whole, we can abstract the following ideas: >> ... snip >> 3. Rule of Composition: Design programs to be connected to other >> programs. There is a very nice explanation of why this is desirable on the same page. If I were writing a GUI front end for yum, I might consider implementing an optional (hidden in the background) pipe to grep before displaying the results to the user. But, yum is a command line system administration utility, grep already exists and since I know the root password I should know when an how to use grep. For me, the current behavior is the expected behavior. best, Cliff Kent
