On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 19:46 +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote: > >>>>> "FA" == Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > FA> If I'm not mistaken, yum seems fairly unique in this regard. > > FA> I mean, heck, look at Microsoft for example. Their update thing > FA> applies as many patches as possible, and those that cannot be > FA> applied, well duh, they don't get applied and the user is notified > FA> by big honking red icons that something failed. > > Yum just doesn't follow the Unix commandline tradition. Unix commands > should succeed quietly, and only show output if it is something the > user asks for. They don't ask whether you really mean it when you tell > them to do something -- heck even cp needs -i to ask whether you want > to clobber a file, and that one is AFAIK a GNUism. They don't block > SIGINT except when absolutely needed, and then only for a short time. Aya. Blocking SIGINT is one of my "favorites". Having to Ctrl-Z + kill -9 %% every time I need to kill yum is -very- annoying. (Ignoring, for a second, that lack of consistency with other command line application. > > Yum's interface is made for a GUI, where all this interactivity makes > sense. The default should be to do exactly what the user asked, unless > it is impossible. That is, it should take an extra switch to let it > upgrade even when there are broken dependencies, but that extra switch > should not be -y. -y is almost as bad as --force for rpm. There should > probably be a switches to stop yum from upgrading or removing packages > when doing an install. > Add -i and --progress switches to get back the current behaviour, if > people can't live without it. The --progress thing would actually make > sense, if package fetching is slow sometimes. > --skip upgrade should be enabled by default. Yum should show up a list of packages that are about to upgraded, and more importantly, packages that are skipped. (With an option to see why package X has been skipped) Did I mention that Ctrl-C should be kill yum and -not- switch mirrors??!?!??! > > /Benny > > (Sorry for the gripe. Yum is a godsend, it is just the interface which > is a pain) > > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
