[Yum-devel] Idea: plugins

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 17:38 -0800, Jon Savage wrote:
> Maybe I'm way off base here; if so feel free to slap me down.
> This appears to be a situation where someone does not want to install
> a a given package (or packages) from the default repos but instead
> include said packages from a different repository.
> 
> If the number of packages being (de)selected in this fashion is not
> too large then could one not just run yum once with the default repos
> but *excluding* the packages in question and then run it again with
> the vanilla core/extras repos *disabled* while enabling the repo that
> contains the version of the packages initially excluded and specifying
> which packages are required?
> 
> This could likely be scripted to further ease the process.

setting this up so that a user can provide their own scripting/algorithm
for package excluding is (more or less) what we're talking about.

-sv