> You wouldn't have to mimic the rpm command line parameters as I did. > You could choose your own scheme and support any subset of the actual > transaction flags. right b/c coming up with a whole new semantic will decrease confusion to users? :) > To a certain extent, you're already driven by the > capabilities of rpmlib, so supporting a well-established set of flags > seems a reasonable course of action to me. to a certain extent, but it might not always be that way - and I'm not sure I want to design in that direction. > Of course, the more closely you mimic the rpm command line parameters, > the more existing documentation you can leverage for the meanings of > individual keywords. :-) That's my point - why should I add a whole parser for these options into yum when I can just tell people - if this rpmrc file is present yum will use the options set here - then I don't do anything at all except read include the macros/rc file. -sv
