On 21 Jun 2003, seth vidal wrote: > Hey all, > I was wondering what y'all thought about acceptable behavior for > 'tolerant mode'. > > the idea is something many have requested. > > right now yum is not terribly tolerant to user's requesting to > install/update/remove packages that are already in those states: > > ie: yum install glibc foo bar baz > will exit b/c glibc is installed. > > so I've added a -t option and tolerant= in the conf file to let yum > ignore the stuff that is already updated/installed/removed and just act > on the rest of the packages (it will still warn you about it though, > tough noogies, that's not going away ;) > > anyway - if you request to do something to a package that does not exist > at all should it happily move along? I'm inclined to say yes - but I > wanted to see y'alls thoughts as well. I am inclined to say yes also as long as there is some kind of dialog and/or exit status that is appropriate. -- ......Tom Registered Linux User #14522 http://counter.li.org tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx My current SpamTrap -------> mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx
