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[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 06:28, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, seth vidal wrote:
> >
> > > (this, of course coming from the guy who wrote yellowdog updater,
> > > modified, so I completely understand the hypocrisy) :)
> > > but to be honest most people miss the yellowdog part entirely, for some
> > > reason.
> > >
> >
> > yup!
> 
> yellowdog updater, petrified?
> 

YUP was the Yellowdog UPdater.
so maybe yum should be yupm but considering it shares maybe 2 functions
with yup it doesn't seem all that important.
To be completely honest, yum was selected as a name b/c it was:
  1. short
  2. not already taken 

:)

-sv