On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 12:36 -0300, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote: > Fred New wrote: > > >Marius Andreiana wrote: > > > > > > > >>I don't know if it's a new issue, but I first noticed this in fc4t2. > >>When yum is downloading packages, it can't be stopped pressing ctrl+c > >>(it will switch to another mirror and continue). > >> > >> > >> > >I appreciate this behavior since some mirrors can be real dogs. > >If ctrl+c killed yum, how could I indicate to yum that I wanted > >to try a different mirror? > > > > > What about CTRL+C having the default behaviour (stopping the > application) and something else being used to tell yum to change mirror > (something like CTRL+M , for example)? > > -- > Pedro Macedo > This is a good idea. Alternatively, yum could take a "mail"-style approach "press ^C again to kill letter". Two ^Cs would kill yum.