Re: Yum Extender

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On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 05:09:39PM -0400, Robert Spangler wrote:
> >  You shouldn't have to go back and forth between user and root with
> >  regular yum either.
> Really?  I do.
> Start yum and it complains that I'm not root

But rather than totally switching to root, do "sudo yum whatever". (And
configure sudo properly, of course.) This is effectively what yumex is
doing, although it does it via consolehelper instead of sudo. You could even
make yum use consolehelper if you really wanted.

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