On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 15:49 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Am Samstag, den 27.08.2005, 09:29 -0400 schrieb seth vidal:
> > Both yum (in its overview before the Transaction Summary and in some
> > other places) and rpm (when used with "-ivh" ) have problems with
names
> > longer then ~23 characters (in yum the columns don't match in the
> > overview; during the download the name is striped after ~18 chars; in
> > the install-overview it is striped after around 30 chars. In rpm the
> > name is striped after ~23).
>
> just so you know - it's not a problem. it's not an oversight. We're
> intentionally truncating the output of the package name. Mostly to stay
> within an 80 character limit.
just so you know -- that was sure (at least to me -- yes, I should have
mentioned that here) :)
Sorry if that sounded like criticism on yum. I like it very much.
I wasn't worried about criticism on yum - I get plenty of that - I just
didn't want to see a bug opened by some well-intentioned person based on
it. :)
-sv