[Yum-devel] Time for new yum-utils release?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sun Jul 24 18:38:42 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 13:48 +1000, Menno Smits wrote:
> Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > On a related note - any thoughts about packaging the plugins? I think
> > it'd be nice to have the plugins as separate packages so they'd get
> > properly updated, instead of just including them as %doc. And if they're
> > to be packaged, should we just call them yum-<pluginname> or something
> > like yum-plugin-<name>? The latter would at least be very obvious what
> > those things are, but 'yum-protectbase' is quite clear as well.
> 
> I thought the plugins in yum-utils were mainly there as examples for 
> people to work from. Seth didn't want to have to maintain all the crack 
> in there as the Yum API evolves. Given that the plugins aren't 
> necessarily being tested for every Yum release it might not be a good 
> idea to start packaging them.
> 
> On the other hand, if someone wants to put their hand up and maintain 
> the yum-utils plugins so they continue to work as Yum changes, I'm sure 
> that'd be welcome. I'd be all for packaging the plugins if that was the 
> case.
> 

yes - I agree with Menno. Let's not start packaging things pre-api
stabilization only for them to break a lot. However, if someone wants to
babysit these things then more power to them.

-sv





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