Re: yum list available weird output

On Wed, 6 May 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> So restricting it to only doing what it is named for makes the most sense 
>> to me.
>> 
> 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.

The author can change things if he sees fit, he has check in access for a 
reason but it doesn't match to my mind which is why I changed it.

-sv