> Still, at least one good thing about a root/user split is that LOTS of > yum users would only have to learn the informational unprivileged verb > (command) set; splitting it would actually make their task easier. This > could, maybe, balance the otherwise mostly negative aspects of a split. > > rgb a couple of responses: 1. the rpmbuild split has existed for 3 yrs - it's just that rpm has been legacy-ing the rpm -ba stuff over for a while - it got phased out in rpm 4.1 2. the reason I brought up the yum-tool thing now was so that as complexity increases I don't have to do the "keep rpm being able to do the rpmbuild commands for a few years while people adjust" sort of work that jeff had to do. -sv