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You may or may not be interested in google's "Sponsored Link" Boot.ini - PCbeginner.com - Fix It Yourself. Easy for PC Beginner! Thanks, evil robots reading my mail! On 11/6/06, Earle Martin <hates-software@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > Yum. The Fedora package manager. Feature of hates past and surely > hates future. Today, it is my hate. > > A Linux distribution has many thousands of files. Nevertheless, they > are generally organised in reasonable groupings [1]. Yum, however, has > its configuration files organised as follows: > > /etc > |-- yum > | |-- pluginconf.d > | | `-- installonlyn.conf > | `-- yum-daily.yum > |-- yum.conf > |-- yum.conf.bak > `-- yum.repos.d > |-- atrpms.repo > |-- dag.repo > |-- dries.repo > ... > > Yes, although there is an /etc/yum directory, the yum.conf file (_and_ > backup copy) float next to it in /etc itself; and then there is > _another_ directory, /etc/yum.repos.d, wherein yum's knowledge of > repositories resides. The net result is that I can't easily > tab-complete the path to various parts of the yum config and have to > remember how it's arranged, which is fucking stupid. Would it have > been _too_ hard for whatever team of monkeys filled with crack it is > that writes this application to have put everything in /etc/yum? IS > THAT TOO FUCKING OBVIOUS FOR YOU? > > Talking of /etc/yum.repos.d (proof of my point: my fingers just tried > to type /etc/yum/repos.d), it contains one file per repository, > because they are written in what appears to be .ini format and are > INCREDIBLY VERBOSE. Here's a snippet: > > [core] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch > #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ > mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever > enabled=1 > gpgcheck=1 > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora > file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY > > Yes, it's doing some kind of crap involving interpolation of variables > from who-knows-where. Note the nice use of an "enabled" flag, but also > a line being commented out. What does that mean? I haven't got a clue. > But what I do know is that you're fucked if you expect to be able to > add repositories with a single line of text, apt-style. CRAP FOUNTAIN. > > > [1] Or not? Place your hates now! > > -- > Earle Martin > http://downlode.org/ > http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/ >
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