On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 06:28, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, seth vidal wrote:
>
> > (this, of course coming from the guy who wrote yellowdog updater,
> > modified, so I completely understand the hypocrisy) :)
> > but to be honest most people miss the yellowdog part entirely, for some
> > reason.
> >
>
> yup!
yellowdog updater, petrified?
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
:)
-sv