> I don't believe in feature creep. Needs and capabilities change over > time. That's a reality of software development. I disagree. > But up until the paragraph below, you didn't provide a single bit of > useful direction. You just said, in essence, "write python or fuck > off!" Directing him to the yum-utils package to write a wrapper > instead of a patch is far more useful. 1. I never told anyone to fuck off. 2. the yum-utils are all in python and none of them are wrappers around yum. They use the yum modules. > Well, that begs the question: What *is* yum about? Draw the line in > the sand so you have something to point to in response to similar > future enquiries. :-) go read lesscode.org > I sensed a momentary interest in XML-based output (and input?). What > would you think of such a beast? I think we have that already - the xml metadata is all the data yum uses and has. -sv
