On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 13:14 -0800, David Lutterkort wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 12:40 -0800, Peter C. Norton wrote: > > Should the corresponding information be summarized in the log, then? > > The reason, etc. should go somewhere. > > I would be happy with all this stuff winding up on stderr, but a > separate error log for yum might be nice for systems where yum isn't > used much interactively. > a summarized log doesn't really make it easier to script, though, you need to have a parseable log and when you get to that point I think it's time some starts to learn python rather than raking us across the coals to provide a shell-script capable interface. -sv