> > Although it's an extreme example, I refer to the man pages for Perl. > > Would anyone really want to make that One Big Man Page? > > > > No. But seperete yum-tool-command programs is opposite of yum's current > mode f operation. It's contrary to the way things work currently. > > I don't understand why we can't have a yum-tool that understands verbs but > also is able to implement verb based the name of the called program (much > liek the way the startup scrtipts are handled, then everybody can have it > their way: There's a yum-tool command, but there can be symlinks back to > yum-tool for each verb it understands and presenst it's self like a > command. > This goes farther than I'm comfortable with for fairly specific reasons: 1. it's cluttery 2. it eats inodes (all those symlinks) 3. it makes tab completion hard 4. it means the rpm has to keep up with additions to functionality in the code -sv
