On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 21:27 -0400, Michael Jennings wrote: > On Monday, 10 May 2004, at 20:57:55 (-0400), > seth vidal wrote: > > > I'm wondering if it wouldn't be worthwhile to have a yum rpm macros > > file so anything that anyone wants to set for the default yum rpm > > transaction set flags can be set there and not clutter up the yum > > config file with rpmts-specific actions. > > Rather than creating Yet Another Macros File, why not add a simple > keyword set to yum.conf and the command line? Something like: > > rpmtsflags=excludedocs repackage nosignature > B/c then I have to follow each rpm release and multiple rpm releases with any change in the syntax or formatting there so my command line parsing can: 1. tell you when something doesn't exist 2. make any sense at all 3. be reasonably documented -sv