Ideas for yum

[Joe Smith]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Martin Marques wrote:
>> ...
>> 3) A policy of installation would be good to have, so befor installing 
>> a package you know where it comes from, and what installed package 
>> will be replaced in case of an upgrade.
> 
> Yum does list these information on yum list and yum update.

Not in yum update that I've ever seen; well, the repo is listed, but not 
the package being replaced.

For myself, I don't care so much about knowing what package is being 
replaced, but I often feel "in the dark" not knowing whether it's a 
major version upgrade, a minor version upgrade, a bugfix, a security 
patch... what is it?

Maybe I can just add, without seeming ungrateful--I'm very happy with 
yum overall, that at first I liked the volume of status output from yum, 
the ascii progress meters are sweet ;-). But I very quickly learned that 
most of the info provided was stuff I didn't need to know.

Now, I'd rather have less info about yum's operation and more info about 
the actual transaction.

<Joe