On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:56 -0800, Dan Christian wrote: > I just couldn't leave well enough alone. I actually want to be able > to change the string on the fly when installed as an RPM (no source). > > So I added it to yum.conf as "useragentstring". See the attached > patch and tell my what you think. > I'm not inclined to include this patch b/c of the following reasons: 1. I'm not sure in what situations this is actually useful to control 2. if I include it I'll be carrying it along forever as an option. Every option has an affiliated maintenance cost. That has to be weighed versus the relative benefit. I've not heard a compelling benefit derived from this other than 'able to get past my network proxy limitations'. I've been talked into certain options I have been against in the past but they normally had more tangible benefits. Thanks for the patch but I'm pretty sure it won't be merged to main-line yum. -sv
