On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Jared Smith wrote:
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 11:22, seth vidal wrote:
YUP was the Yellowdog UPdater. so maybe yum should be yupm but considering it shares maybe 2 functions with yup it doesn't seem all that important. To be completely honest, yum was selected as a name b/c it was:
- short
- not already taken
Hmmmn... I just had a thought... why not rename it to "rum", as in Redhat Updater, iMproved! (OK, this borders on trolling, so I'll stop.)
Jared
While yum is a short and nice name, renaming it to something like system-package-* (or making a symlink?) helps so that the new user/admin simply types syste-TAB and finds what he's looking for.