Re: Why is yum not liked by some? -- CVS analogy (and why you're not getting it)

[lesmikesell at gmail.com (Les Mikesell)]

On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 21:28, Roy wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 16:58 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
> But poking around I see some xml
> > gunk that I didn't expect (hadn't looked closely since it was
> > just headers, packages, and header.info).  I wonder if the 
> > installed RPM data gets cached now too.
> 
> Yeah, that xml gunk isn't anything... it's only gives all the info that
> yam uses to update something... not too important.
> 
> Maybe you need to maybe look inside? Ya think? 

Maybe.  There was a time when it didn't exist and yum
did all the same things without it.  I thought there was
some philosophical reason for all of those individual
.hdr files but maybe that has changed now.

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  Les Mikesell
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