[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Yum plugins

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, seth vidal wrote:
>
>> When yum starts it loads plugins from /usr/lib/yum-plugins. Plugins
>> are simply Python modules. Specific functions defined within a plugin
>> tell yum which "slots" the plugin is interested in.
>
> I'd feel a lot better if the plugins needed to be defined in a file
> in /etc as well as exist in some path. Mainly b/c it would decrease the
> possibility of someone just dropping a file in the wrong place or doing
> so maliciously.

Yup. I think we should have something like /etc/yum.plugins.d for the 
*configuration* bits of plugins, and then /usr/lib/yum-plugins or such for 
the plugins themselves. The per-plugin configuration file is for
a) telling yum which slots to enable this plugin in
b) possible configuration options of the plugin itself

 	- Panu -