seth vidal wrote:
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 18:31 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
There are plenty of ways to get broken code. I don't think it is a bad
thing to avoid one of them. And I'm never thrilled when anything adds
interface changes that require knowing the differences between machines
in the scripts that ssh commands to them - as for example when yum
decided not to like --download-only and might or might not do
--downloadonly depending on the circumstances. (I still have an
assortment of CentoOS3.x boxes running too...).
okay, your expectations about a program ever changing what its command
line arguments are (even between major version changes) is unreasonable
and frankly not pleasant.
It's not an expectation, it's an experience. I just don't see what the
point is of a change like that in a needed system utility any more than
I'd understand if cat changed its name to feline, breaking all the
scripted work that ever used it.
The api has remained consistent for rhel and centos in 5. The feature
set and speed has been enhanced.
So you think it is OK for every version to require different command
lines for the same common operations? That is very untypical for
unix-like systems.
I'm not going to continue this discussion on this list. If you have a
problem with what centos ships, take it up on a centos list.
The reason I'm bringing it up here is that this is where the changes
happen.
If you have
a problem with what rhel ships take it up with your sales rep or
technical account manager.
The problem I mentioned was in FC6, but
It is offtopic for this list.
Consistency is offtopic? How odd. Do I have to look at some other
distributions to find one that understands that consistent operations
are valuable?
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