yum clean bug

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Sat Dec 10 17:29:37 UTC 2005


Matthew Miller wrote:

>On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 09:11:24AM -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote:
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>>How 'bout adding a config option to yum.conf? Default setting for the 
>>"cleanall" option could be "enabled-only", users could switch that to 
>>"nuke-everything", or something along those lines. Seems like a reasonable 
>>compromise that gives both sides of the fence what they want, no?
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>I think that makes it worse, since you'd never know what clean all does on a
>given machine without checking the config.
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Yep. Configuration options that change command behavior like this  are 
just plain evil. It will make miserable any attempts to debug problems. 
If you need more fiddling power add them to  yum-utils.

regards
rahul




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