[ydl-gen] stuff

[Christopher Murtagh]

On Wednesday 17 December 2008 01:53:17 am Derick Centeno wrote:
> I could not do so using yum as you invoked it because all that
> information scrolls off the terminal's screen (stdout) and is lost.

 This is a problem with either your terminal program (not enough scrollback), 
or you simply didn't try shift-<page up>.

 In the vast majority of cases, if your not expecting a huge amount of 
packages to be effected by your actions, chances are you doing something 
wrong and simply want to say 'n'.

> I'm a great believer in documenting the
> documents and can seek to overcompensate sometimes explaining too
> much but my concern especially in the example we are discussing is
> justified.

 I agree that one of the biggest problems with the software industry (OSS or 
otherwise) is the lack of proper documentation.

> I hope my suggestion appears somewhere in the yum pages and not
> merely in my personal notes.

 Well, despite that the 'Y' in Yum stands for Yellowdog, Terra Soft now 
Fixstars hasn't been the maintainer of it since it was called Yup. The new 
maintainer is Seth Vidal and he can be found on IRC in #fedora-devel or on 
the yum mailing lists. If you feel strongly about it, you might want to get 
involved there.

Cheers,

Chris