On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 20:14, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Mo, den 11.10.2004 schrieb W. Guy Thomas um 2:39: > > > and why would anyone make a system as great as yum and require different > > instructions per web site? > > that's insane. > > I don't understand your "intervention" or complaint. yum is a tool to > handle repositories. Which to use lies in the hand of the user. The > syntax is always the same. By default the Fedora Core and update > repository is configured. If you want to use different or additional > then please configure them. There is nothing to whine about. This is > btw. The same with both other "frontends" and dependency managers for > rpm: up2date and apt-rpm. Be lucky that you have such tools and no need > to handle the dependencies and download of rpms by hand ;) > > > =G > > Alexander > The web portion of an application should be ubiquitous and not require a reconfiguration per site. Yum itself could and should require many parameters, but to change the option of using $releasever and $basearch and require editing per site takes away the power of yum and what it could be. My .02. Deal with it. =G
