[Yum-devel] More plugin fun + comments/ideas

Menno Smits menno-yum at freshfoo.com
Sun Apr 10 21:51:21 UTC 2005


Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 
> Sure. I'm certainly not asking for exposing all of yum to plugins, just 
> speaking as somebody who has written a fair share of plugins (to apt - 
> and sorry about the a-word :) and based on that experience asking for 
> what were the most commonly needed things. The group-thingy might not be 
> all that useful, or then it might.
> 
> Let's not add stuff to the plugin API "just because somebody might need 
> it" but on "here's an actually useful and sane real world use case" 
> basis :)

Like Seth, I'm wary of re-providing everything Yum can do through the 
plugin API. In this case however I think that letting plugins query 
installed packages and access filelists and otherdata (perhaps 
transparently) isn't too much to ask.

Menno




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