On Thursday 04 August 2005 15:02, seth vidal wrote: > You'd be doing work that is extremely unlikely to be included in yum if > you do that. I've been discouraging screen scraping for a while now b/c > it is error-prone and ridiculous when yum has modules intended for use > in other scripts. Yes, I too am against screen-scraping. However, UNIX-like interoperability is not screen scraping. Is this screen-scraping? rpm -qa | grep ^perl- | xargs rpm -ql | xargs grep -l ^#!/usr/bin/perl | xargs perl -c Of course not. It is an example of the ease with which UNIX tools can be combined. It's not guaranteed to be right, but most of the time it is and the fact that it's a single line is a major advantage. If there existed a way for yum to provide simple output, separated by newlines, so that it could be scripted in UNIX fashion then no doubt that would be great. > What's wrong with writing a python script that does: > import yum You have to write Python. Taking your argument further, you could say that scriptability is not useful because you can write C that would do the same thing.
