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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/09/2014 12:28 PM, Radek Holy
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Please share with me the use cases, not the description of the "install" command. Think twice before you share something because I believe it's not as easy as it might seem. As an example I think it might be something like:
- "I call YUM install, because I want to get given packages into my system and I don't care whether it requires an upgrade or downgrade or what." or
- "I want to get them there but it should protect me against dangerous operations like downgrades" or
- "I often make typos, so I expect that the program knows what I mean" or
- "it would be nice if it would literally perform the installation; if any of the packages cannot be installed because of any reason, it should fail".
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I have mixed feelings for the typo correction/suggestions for
arguments providing package names: I am glad they are
case-insensitive because case conventions in package names are all
over the place. On the other hand I am concerned about possible
mistakes (I want to 'install foo' but mistype it as 'boo' and end up
installing 'bugaboo').<br>
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The 'yum' environment is a little too rich: too many commands:
routine system administration requires all of yum,
yum-complete-transaction, yumdownloader, repoquery, package-cleanup,
and rpm---each of those commands is sometimes essential in a way not
provided by other related commands.<br>
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I do appreciate that yum doesn't just report errors and problems but
also provides suggestions for fixing them.<br>
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I think the dependency and system consistency checks are essential,
and --skip-broken is quite useful. On the other hand, maybe in an
ideal world skip-broken should almost never be required---I feel I
am forced to use it far too often even though I use fairly vanilla
package sets. This also reminds me that it's absolutely crazy that
anyone would ever need to manually delete __db.00?, although to be
fair I wasn't forced to do it anytime in recent memory, so maybe
that has been fixed.<br>
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HTH<br>
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przemek<br>
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