I agree completely. I was simply ignorant of the superior method. At some point, I also plan to drop the system call for diff and do the comparison internally. This was essentially a POC. > Hi. > > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:12:12 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > >> Though it is not a show stopper it is negative that the tool uses yum >> by making os.system() calls instead of using the yum modules. > > I would consider this a show stopper. system() calls are bad, no matter > what the programming language. It's too easy to get things wrong. > > Especially when there is a native binding. > > -- > fedora-extras-list mailing list > fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list > -- novus ordo absurdum -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list