[Apologies for messing the thread - I wasn't subscribed to the list...] On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 11:52, Cymon J. Cox wrote: >> Folks, >> >> Seeing as this has been discussed many times I'll get to the point: has >> anyone considered poking an ordered dictionary through to ConfigParser? >> Apart from touching a supposed private attribute (which I can live >> with), this would seem to be a simple solution... >> [and Seth Vidal replied] >Doesn't really work for the new config stuff that's in cvs-HEAD b/c the >new config supports a yum.conf.d directory of repos. > >the directory entries could be named anything and sort order for getting >them is whatever order the dir list is in. > >Better to sort by something the user has more control over - the repo >id. Of course, a directory of rep.conf's should be prioritised (-able) by a user defined repo-id, but isnt this a separate issue? The prioritising of repos in a single .conf is still 'newest|alphabetical last', when I'm sure the user expectation is that a higher priority would be afforded those repos listed first (or at least be an option). 'Alphabetical last' makes no sense from a user standpoint - apart from the nasty hack of prefixing the repo name with a numeral. Unless I'm missing something (and I havent read the cvs code), a serverlist ordered by repoconfid then by repo-stanza position would still make more sense to the user here than the current implementation. Cheers, C. -- Cymon J. Cox <cymon@xxxxxxxx>
