RFC: X.Org X11 modularization project - rpm package driver naming

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sat Aug 27 13:29:30 UTC 2005


> Both yum (in its overview before the Transaction Summary and in some
> other places) and rpm (when used with "-ivh" ) have problems with names
> longer then ~23 characters (in yum the columns don't match in the
> overview; during the download the name is striped after ~18 chars; in
> the install-overview it is striped after around 30 chars. In rpm the
> name is striped after ~23). 

just so you know - it's not a problem. it's not an oversight. We're
intentionally truncating the output of the package name. Mostly to stay
within an 80 character limit.

-sv





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