Feature or bug? (strange?) yum behaviour

[Les Mikesell]

seth vidal wrote:
> 
> I think it is okay for programs under development to change their
> options when they have a major version change. including --download-only
> originally was a mistake that was corrected.

Personally, I think the download only option should be an 
always-available choice, since many people will want to baby-sit updates 
but would prefer not to have to wait around while the downloads happen. 
In fact I'd expect that to be the most common use if the documentation 
gave it as an example.  Just my opinion...

But aside from modularization, why was the change in the name of the 
option necessary?  Doesn't it annoy you when python changes something 
that makes your scripts version-specific?

>> Consistency is offtopic?  How odd.  Do I have to look at some other 
>> distributions to find one that understands that consistent operations 
>> are valuable?
> 
> discussing inclusion of programs in centos and rhel is offtopic for
> fedora-devel, yes. 

The expectation of consistency is the only point I care about here. 
Should I expect to always have to know the distribution/version/plugins 
of every machine running yum in order to do common operations across them?


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