[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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