Issues with yum

[Emmanuel Seyman]

* John Reiser [27/02/2012 22:50] :
>
> OK, so both rpm and yum could do better: at the first mention of 'transaction',
> then the documentation (manual page, ...) should specify "not ACID".

It would help if you filed a bug (preferably with a patch attached).

> There is a database involved, and the word 'transaction' had a decade
> of precedence in the database world before rpm was written.

a) Databases have been around since the late-60s and rpm was written
   in the early-90s.

b) I just did a quick poll around my office and the consensus is that
   'transaction' does not imply 'ACID'.

Emmanuel