Bug#547171: #547171: yum-utils ITP: any news?
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Any news? Any help needed packaging this one?
Hi, very close to done, sorry again for the delay.
The only remaining issue is the pollution of the /usr/bin namespace.
As you brought up in a private mail, there are no conflicts but the
names of some commands may be confusing to Debian users, and some are
simply useless.
The useless ones have been pruned from the package, that was an easy decision.
I have been considering whether there is any alternative to installing
the rest of the commands in /usr/bin as they are given from upstream.
My mentor suggested moving the files to a private directory that is
not in the default PATH, and add it for users or scripts that want to
use the provided commands. I'm not sure that this would help Debian
more than it would hurt legitimate packages and user scripts that use
yum-utils.
Or, since the package is Priority: extra, it should only be installed
by users who already know what they are getting, so perhaps that plus
a verbose description of the contents and the use-case of the package
is enough.
You brought this to my attention initially with the needs-restart
command, which the package is no longer installing. Do you have any
other ideas or opinions on this issue?
Thanks,
--
mike
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