Hi.  I administrate some CentOS 5 (and, hopefully soon, CentOS 6) machines,
and I'd like to have lots of lovely color output from yum.  I see from the
manpages that there are some color options currently, but I'd like to have
it be more extensive.

First question: should I go about hacking on yum proper, or make a yum
plugin?  I was guessing the former, since color options already exist, but
I wanted to make sure this was a good path.  Of concern is also ease of
getting any changes I make into the yum on my machines - I'm ok doing some
backporting, as long as things haven't changed significantly.

Secondly: how do you all handle development environments?  I cloned down
the yum repo yesterday to play around with it, but I can't get it to run on
the system python because it uses library calls[0] not available in 2.4.  I
can't use 2.6 because something requires the rpm library, which is
installed on my system (in the 2.4 path), but not otherwise available for
installation.  Also, the EPEL virtualenv doesn't work in 2.4 any more[1]. :(

I appreciate any advice you might give.
 - P

[0]: http://docs.python.org/2/library/struct.html#struct.unpack_from
[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=969395
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