> And has an incredibly sane internal set of data structures and an
> extensible and well-documented ABI.
>
ABI? no - API. there isn't much in the way of 'binary interface' here.
> As you say, this could be done now "outside of yum" with an e.g. perl
> script that does some obvious things, but they would still be
> inefficient -- running yum's core a whole bunch of times instead of just
> once to build its internal installed/uninstalled lists with their
> attached/hashed metadata.
Right:
import yum
conf = yum.config('/etc/yum.conf')
pkglist = yum.parse(conf.pkglists())
whatever - but do it all internally - instead of external
screen-scraping calls.
-sv
