> The thing I hate about that syntax is that it lets users do some very- > possibly stupid stuff w/o having to think very hard. What's the big deal? They can do: rpm -i url:/to/the/rpm Which they have to run as root anyway. People would have an option to use either mothod, depending on their confort level. > Making it a two step process at least makes them think a tiny bit more > about the very-possibly stupid act their about to undertake. Heh, they can do so many stupid things as root, this is just an annoyance more then anything. Don't get me wrong, I don't feel that strongly for it, but I'm not sure I buy the argument. > oh and for future reference: consistency with rpm's user interface is > not and will not be a design goal of yum development. It may end up that > way, occasionally, but it's not going to be something that drives my > decisions. I know you don't aim for consistency with rpm, but having it where it doesn't hurt would be nice, no? -- Dimi.
