On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 02:22:00AM +0100, Paul Wouters wrote: > Not that agree. The above sounds correct from the yum developers point > of view, but fails to take into account the enduser who will expect to > be able to use "the package manager" for such tasks. I dunno. I expect an end-user savvy enough to use yum on the command line can figure it out fairly easily. And by extension, anyone savvy enough to have a use for source. > There also seems to be no easy way for the user to figure out an > additional tool is needed. Perhaps "yum install foo.src" and "yum > -source install foo" could return some helpful information on how > people are supposed to obtain the source in a somewhat automatic way. That seems like a bad road to go down -- should every option for every function people think a program should have return an explanation for why it actually hasn't? What I someone think "yum sourcedownload foo" would be the intuitive way? Should that also give a message? :) But maybe a mention in the man pages is warrented, just to help people out. And this should probably go in the Yum Faq... Okay, now it is (Q14; <http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq>). -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
