In a message dated: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:28:42 EST
Benjamin Scott said:
I disagree with all these design decisions:
> Query? You've got the spec file, which you are presumably interested in,
>since you're mucking around with the sources. What are you going to query?
Maybe I want to know what version of the source package I have *quickly*
without cd'ing down some who know's where looking for the version number.
> You don't upgrade source packages.
Maybe I know the version of the source I have installed is obsolete, and I
want to grab the latest, while simultaneously deleting the old stuff. That's
what rpm -U is supposed to do.
> Uninstall? You don't uninstall user data. If you don't want something
>anymore, you just delete it.
But it's a lot easier to type rpm -e foo-source.srpm than it is to type:
cd /usr/src/redhat
rm -rf BUILD/* RPMS/* SOURCES/* SPECS/* SRPMS/*
Of course, I don't blame you personally Ben, for those poor design decisions
(though if I could, you know I would ;)
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Seeya,
Paul
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