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:
> 1. short
> 2. 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.