When I use yum and install software, N is the default choice. I feel that from usability perspective, yes should be the default value. I wanted to know if there was any motive behind this strange choice. Or was it that the developers of yum felt people would use install instead of info or deplist?
(However, I do feel that no must the be default as it is for removal of packages) Also, I feel that for a system, one version of a package that has been downloaded should be kept on the hard disk and could be overwritten by the next release of the package. If a user installs a package and then uninstalls it and finally reinstalls it, he should not be redownloading the package. I find that only the downloaded and yet-to-be-installed packages are present in /var/cache/yum/*. The manpage of yum tells me that they are not automatically removed. But I found them to be automatically deleted after they have been installed(Fedora11) On further probing, I found keepcache to be set to 0 in /etc/yum.conf. This contradicts with the manpage. --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
