On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 17:38 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Panu Matilainen wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > >> Panu Matilainen wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> The ugly part is that it makes parsing harder as you have to account > >>> for the possibility of epoch being or not being there always, but > >>> OTOH you can always pick your own queryformat if you don't want to > >>> deal with it. > >> > >> Can't you unconditionally have a epoch number listed all the time? 0 > >> if there is no epoch for that package. > > > > Obviously you CAN, but do you REALLY want to? > > Personally, yes. I would like to see epoch listed always so that we get > a consistent format for other scripts to parse. -1 showing the epoch looks ridiculous since in most cases it'll be a 0. Yum has done this for a long time, actually: foo-1.1-1.noarch 1:bar-1.1-1.noarch foo has none or a 0 epoch bar has an epoch of 1 -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
