[fedora-india] Usability Pondering- Yum

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 06/13/2009 07:26 PM, Ashok Gautham wrote:
> When I use yum and install software, N is the default choice.
> I feel that from usability perspective, yes should be the default
> value. I wanted to know if there was any motive behind this
> strange choice. Or was it that the developers of yum felt people
> would use install instead of info or deplist?
> 
> (However, I do feel that no must the be default as it is for
> removal of packages)

Not sure why you find it strange. Install and removing software are both
choices that users need to carefully think about before doing them.
Software can pull in unexpected number of dependencies and having it all
download without prompting is unhelpful. Removing software can be even
more dangerous. Think about the consequences of user accidently doing
something like yum remove glibc.

> On further probing, I found keepcache to be set to 0 in
> /etc/yum.conf. This contradicts with the manpage.

File a bug report.

Rahul