On Wed, 6 May 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:
Seth Vidal wrote:
On Wed, 6 May 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:
The man page says that 'installed' is a valid context and that's been in
there for quite a long while from what I can see. Why do you want to put
more restriction into this tool? Yum can list installed as well as
available packages. Repoquery has been able and should continue to be able
to do the same thing.
B/c it is not called 'rpmdb query' and it confuses results when you look up
a package and it spits back out something from your local rpmdb.
So restricting it to only doing what it is named for makes the most sense
to me.
Who cares what the tool name is? The tool has a good set of functionality and
to now start restricting that functionality b/c it doesn't exactly match the
name of the tool is crazy. Maybe the tool should have been named 'pkgquery'
or something like that but really who cares. I don't want to see a good tool
neutered because of a naming issue. Please don't do this. It's clear that the
author intended this tool to have the scope outlined in the man page and that
includes working against the installed package set as well as the repos.
The author can change things if he sees fit, he has check in access for a
reason but it doesn't match to my mind which is why I changed it.
-sv
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