On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > and there's absolutely nothing about what i suggested that would violate > this idea, as far as i can tell. i'm just going for consistency, that's > all. this is also related to the observation, as i mentioned earlier, > that > > $ yum list > > accepts package names or globs, while neither of > > $ yum list updates > $ yum list available > > accept either. again, this is non-intuitive, and challenges the user to > remember when package names or globs are acceptable and when they aren't. FWIW, I consider "updates", "installed", and "available" to be pre-packaged textual globs to the list function based on the status of the package/repo state - helpful because that info isn't askable via a fileglob. If anything, I'd rather see the above keywords removed and yum's list output indicate the state of the package so I can grep it instead of kludging the existing commands :) -n -- ------------------------------------------- nathan hruby <nhruby@xxxxxxx> uga enterprise information technology services production systems support metaphysically wrinkle-free -------------------------------------------
