On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 19:49 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
The short answer is that it violates the principle of "do one
thing and do
it well". Adding features like this clutters up yum's interface, not to
mention the internal code. Having it separate is cleaner.
I disagree. If being
properly implemented, a "get srpms" operation would
be a yum-library feature.
Whether to make such a functionality accessible to users as part of the
"yum"-application or as a separate tool is a matter of taste. The effort
of implementing both cases, would be almost identical.
However, refusing to implement such an (IMO) essential core-feature as
part of yum-libs and wanting to push it to external packages (IMO) is
not a wise decision.
Ralf