On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 14:12 -0500, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote:

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> So here's the question:
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> will someone often be doing:
> yum-config-manager --add-repo=fp:spot/chromium
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> or will they more likely do:
> yum-config-manager
> --add-repo=<paste-url-to-repofile-from-web-browser>
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> b/c it sure feels like the latter is more common.
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> -sv
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> Out of convenience, the former will be more common.
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Out of convenience of what? You'd have to know:
1. the repo is on repos.fedorapeople.org
2. that the username is 'spot'
3. that the reponame is 'chromium'

and then you'd have to type all of it

instead of just pasting from your webbrowser directly from the website.

-sv

Tutorials, printed manuals, etc.

In that case, copying and pasting is rather difficult, don't you think?

And also, fp:spot/chromium doesn't preclude copying and pasting that into the terminal.

Then there are cases when people are working in the terminal with no GUI available. Copying and pasting is almost impossible in that case.

It is easier for humans to remember "fp:spot/chromium" than a long string that is the repo URL.