yum clean bug

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 23:51 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 15:55 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > On 12/8/05, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <strange at nsk.no-ip.org> wrote:
> > > Yes. Because I'm doing cache operations, not repository operations. Or
> > > rather, that's what I thought I was doing, so it would be intuitive to
> > > me.
> > 
> > So for completeness what your saying is that you think
> > yum clean packages   should clean all packages from all enabled and
> > disabled repos by default?
> > 
> > and yum clean headers  should clean all headers from all enabled and
> > disabled repos by default?
> 
> Well, I actually think it should.


Seriously? That seems completely backward to me.

it's like saying rsync --exclude=/some/path should not actually exclude
that path.

or that a disabled samba share shouldn't ACTUALLY be disabled.

why on earth do you think yum should do what it's been told NOT to do?

-sv