On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:48:15AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 23:33 -0700, Michael Stenner wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:17:36PM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > > > Unless they have root access they already cannot run yum. > > > > Well, they can run "yum list" and "yum search", etc. But basically, I > > agree with you. yum has limited value as a user app. > > It's not obvious to me what the benefit of yum is to a user who is not > the admin. I guess they can query packages and look for info but if > they're not going to install/remove/update something I don't really see > the point of a user dealing with it. I agree completely. I have run it as a user before (in phy) just to see what was "available" or because I knew you were using some of the same repos I had at home. Things like that. Very limited user-usefulness. I do not see this as a problem at all. -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ECE 524G
