Yum and SRPMs

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 20:43 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 08:37:14PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > What if include rpm-build in yum, like apt-build, or apt-get build
> > > does? Maybe yum could become another emerge or pkg_add or so. :p
> > 2 items:
> > 1. why wouldn't we make a yum-devel that handles that sort of thing so
> > we don't have one command with 25 thousand options?
> > 2. We wouldn't want all that building going on as root so it'd be better
> > if that command could do it as a user.
> 
> Hmmm. I'm pretty sure the previous comment was meant as joking actually in
> _support_ of your position. :)

If someone wants to write it - more power to them.

It won't be me, though. :)

-sv