Yum and SRPMs

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Nov 28 00:52:50 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 01:40 +0100, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > > > yum install yum-utils
> > > > yumdownloader --source package
> > > >
> > >
> > > That's useful, thanks.
> > > Might this functionality ever be built into yum though?
> > >
> >
> > no
> 
> That's a really good answer if you want developrs to feel that they
> are being taken seriously.....
> 
> Do you think there is a fundamental problem with people being able to get
> the sources easilly? Is yum fundamentally flawed for this? Is it too much
> work to put in yum?
> 
> We might appreciate decisions better if we know why they are made in a
> certain way.

It's really best discussed on appropriate list-  yum-devel.

But to the point  - we've discussed it there before. The reason it
should not be in the yum program itself but in an add-on tool is that it
unnecessarily clutters up the main program.

-sv





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