[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Yum plugins

[seth vidal]

> I almost raised the possibility of providing something more general
> that allows one to override any arbitrary yum
> behavior/module/function.  (I do understand the potential pain that
> results from that)  However, it occurs to me that you can still do
> that by "pushing" things into the yum libs from (for example) an init
> plugin.  That's not for the faint of heart, and should probably not be
> "supported" behavior, but it's EXTREMELY powerful.  If you don't know
> what I mean by this, then you probably don't want to, and you should
> just move along ;)

I know what you mean by this and I'd advise/work against us ever
intentionally including anything like that. If someone wants to subclass
the yum modules and do whatever they want, then they can, but it's not
going to be my worry when their program breaks.

Let's not go too too far down the road of infinite configurability, it's
a devil's bargain and unfortunately I'm most likely the one who will
have to pay the price. :)

-sv