On 17 September 2011 07:21, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
... and no way to access yum information from anything other than
Python, which makes it harder to use more professional programming
languages and yum data together. I had to write a whole bit of code
that spawned a Python process to get some dependency data, write it to
a file, and parse that back in to the real program.
Out of interest, would Zif allow you to do this? There are some
example programs here:
https://github.com/hughsie/zif/tree/master/examples or some developer
docs here:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/zif/docs/
Richard.