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

[seth vidal]

> 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.
> 

Right - but this might be a spot where we can improve the main yum api
and get an improvement in the plugin api for free.

Would it make sense to make certain methods for retrieving filelists and
otherdata be an implicit request to retrieve/parse that information?

-sv