A question about yum.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 23:49 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 09:31 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > This thread lives again! Here's my favorite from a
> > previous useless error thread:
> >  
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2007-April/msg03494.html
> 
> There was this brilliant command on the Amiga, called "why."  After some
> program had just turned its toes up and left you with an error message
> that, probably, only the original programmer would understand, you could
> type in "why" and be given a much more human description of the last
> error.  It beats me why other systems didn't do something similar.

And in a related idea, we shouldn't forget the old concept of DWIM,
meaning Do What I Mean, see
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html

poc