On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 16:18 -0400, Michael Jennings wrote: > On Thursday, 04 August 2005, at 15:24:34 (-0400), > seth vidal wrote: > > > > rpm -qa | grep ^perl- | xargs rpm -ql | xargs grep -l ^#!/usr/bin/perl | xargs > > > perl -c > > > > yes. And it's prone to breaking. > > Bullshit. The semantics of "rpm -qa" haven't changed in ages, and if > you're aware of some magical transformation of grep and/or xargs > syntax in the past decade, I'd love to know about it. rpm -qa is prone to breaking if only b/c of the multiarch packages. can you tell the difference b/t the kernels that way? > Or handing back XML or some other well-defined structured format. okay, That's more an api than a screen output is. > > And it would be a bear to maintain simply so we could be locked down > > to that format, forever. No thank you. > > skvidal, meet XML. XML, this is skvidal. > > Your bigotry is showing here, Seth. C is anything but unfun. (You > see, some people actually like a challenge.) And Python is not easy > for everyone to write in. okay... and? I'm not concerned with bigotry - I'm concerned with having to maintain the code in the project I run. > Not everyone likes Python or wants to write Python. that's fine - but I do. your antagonistic tone in this email is not appreciated. Please try to relax. -sv
