Re: yum list available weird output

Seth Vidal wrote:
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> On Wed, 6 May 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:
>> The man page says that 'installed' is a valid context and that's been 
>> in there for quite a long while from what I can see. Why do you want 
>> to put more restriction into this tool? Yum can list installed as 
>> well as available packages. Repoquery has been able and should 
>> continue to be able to do the same thing.
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> B/c it is not called 'rpmdb query' and it confuses results when you 
> look up a package and it spits back out something from your local rpmdb.
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> So restricting it to only doing what it is named for makes the most 
> sense to me.
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Who cares what the tool name is? The tool has a good set of 
functionality and to now start restricting that functionality b/c it 
doesn't exactly match the name of the tool is crazy. Maybe the tool 
should have been named 'pkgquery' or something like that but really who 
cares. I don't want to see a good tool neutered because of a naming 
issue. Please don't do this. It's clear that the author intended this 
tool to have the scope outlined in the man page and that includes 
working against the installed package set as well as the repos.

Regards,
Gerry