On 27/02/12 13:52, elison.niven@xxxxxxxxx wrote: <snipped>
Alternative 2 : Make the following changes to yum to make yum better: 1) yum should maintain status of installed packages locally. And it should not need to fetch repository information when user tries yum info<installed-package> Reason to have this feature : It seems logical to have information about an installed package locally.
try: yumdb --help
2) yum is currently downloading repository information separately for each user. It can use the same downloaded repository information for all users. For example : root did yum install<some-package> followed by Non root user did : yum info<same-package>. yum will currently fetch repo information again for the non root user. Reason to have this feature : Save time, bandwidth.
As above.
3) Show progress in "Setting up update process" or "Setting up install process". At present, users cannot know that is it working or sleeping. Reason to have this feature : Better user experience
yum --verbose
4) Quit on single CTRL-C. Users expect an application to quit on pressing CTRL-C. Reason to have this feature : Better user experience
never used ctrl-c, normally use "killall yum" if required. -- Regards, Frank "Jack of all, fubars" -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
