On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 00:34 +0100, Jarosław Górny wrote:
Wiadomość napisana przez Bruno Wolff III w dniu 2012-02-27, o godz.
16:29:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 14:00:51 +0000,
> Frank Murphy <frankly3d(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 27/02/12 13:52, elison.niven(a)gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>> 4) Quit on single CTRL-C. Users expect an application to quit on
>>> pressing CTRL-C.
>>> Reason to have this feature : Better user experience
>>
>> never used ctrl-c, normally use "killall yum"
>> if required.
>
> Control C works, but it needs to reach a break point. And once you start
> actually doing a transaction you don't normally want control C to work
> since it will leave your system in a state where manual cleanup is likely
> required.
>
Generally I agree, but with one exception. It should be allowed to hit ^C during
preparation phases (metadata fetch, dependency processing, even package download),
*before* any software get changed (also: rpmdb changes).
We agree ... see my message posted "27 Feb 2012 16:08:53 -0500" about
what is happening here, and how it should get fixed again "soon".