On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 08:43 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
and accepted Linux standards (cache is no longer disposable)
Case in point. Upstream repository completely goes away, or goes offline for a long period of time. I disable the repo in my configs, but from time to time I still need access to the rpms and info that is sitting in the cache dir. (do a cache only operation using this repo and others). I don't want yum removing this out from under me, especially if I have the repo disabled.
The question isn't whether or not the cache is disposable, the question is if I am ready for yum to dispose of it in a non intuitive way. I disabled a repo, I don't want to see any operations involved with disabling this repo. Doing operations in regard to this repo when it is disabled seems very counterintuitive to me. Thus when I do a clear all, I want all cleared from enabled repos. Period.