Yum and SRPMs

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Nov 28 01:43:18 UTC 2005


On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 08:37:14PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > What if include rpm-build in yum, like apt-build, or apt-get build
> > does? Maybe yum could become another emerge or pkg_add or so. :p
> 2 items:
> 1. why wouldn't we make a yum-devel that handles that sort of thing so
> we don't have one command with 25 thousand options?
> 2. We wouldn't want all that building going on as root so it'd be better
> if that command could do it as a user.

Hmmm. I'm pretty sure the previous comment was meant as joking actually in
_support_ of your position. :)


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