Re: yum list available weird output

Seth Vidal wrote:
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> On Wed, 6 May 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:
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>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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
Just change the NAME of the tool if this bothers you. Don't neuter the 
tool for crying out loud. That's ridiculous.

Regards,
Gerry