Yum and SRPMs

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 08:17:06PM -0500, Sadda Teh wrote:
> Now consider the scenario where the developer can yum install --source
> some-package, and have it install the source along with all the dependent
> source packages. Then he would be able to cd to some dir where he can type
[...]

That's a very long, tragic tale. But what in this story suggests that "yum
install --source" is so much better than "yumdownloader --source"? Or even
slightly better?

-- 
Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org          <http://mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>              <http://linux.bu.edu/>