A new utility to augment yum - machine cloner

[Ralf Ertzinger]

Hi.

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:12:12 -0500, seth vidal wrote:

> Though it is not a show stopper it is negative that the tool uses yum
> by making os.system() calls instead of using the yum modules.

I would consider this a show stopper. system() calls are bad, no matter
what the programming language. It's too easy to get things wrong.

Especially when there is a native binding.