On Monday, 10 May 2004, at 21:41:47 (-0400), seth vidal wrote: > right b/c coming up with a whole new semantic will decrease > confusion to users? :) That depends on the semantic. :-) > to a certain extent, but it might not always be that way - and I'm > not sure I want to design in that direction. Fair enough. > 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. I would think a normal user would find something closer to rpm options more digestable than the macros/rc files which are considered by most to be akin to a black box. Then again, sufficient documentation covers over a multitude of sins. ;-) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Et elle m'a dit, 'Tombe, tombe au fond de mon coeur. Les nuits sont trop longues, et j'ai un peu peur.' Et c'est comme ca qu'elle est entree dans ma vie, la fille de pluie." -- Roch Voisine