On 12/21/05, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Wil Cooley wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 16:51 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > > > > >>>The problem with any of these are that long package names gets mangled > >>>in the yum output and i haven't found a place to tweak that. > >>> > >> > >>an EXCELLENT reason to never rely on screenscraping. > > > > > > A tool not designed to be connected with other tools? Sounds like a > > disregard for one of the best UNIX design principles, to me. > > Yum is more of an interactive program than a tool designed to be piped > into something else - users want a nicely formatted output where the > update is coming from, progress bars and such, all of which pretty much > conflicts with piping to other programs (hence the "screen scraping" term). Just because yum is interactive doesn't mean it shouldn't handle screen wrapping properly. Notice how `ls` (at least on my system) shows the results in columns with colours, but when you pipe it, it automatically outputs as a list without colours. I think this is to do with detecting the usage of /dev/tty or something (I can't remember). If python is not capable of doing that kind of thing I would be surprised. n0dalus. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
