[Yum-devel] single line config files for plugins

[James Bowes]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> It should be pretty straight-forward to get plugins to load
> automatically...
> 
> Basically, we'd need to change plugins.py:_loadplugin() so that it
> defaults to continuing rather than saying the plugin is disabled.  We
> could then also add a check for a 'default_enabled' attr in the module
> if we wanted.  Something like the following completely and utterly
> untested patch.

I don't think that attr is necessary. Is anyone really going to want
their plugin to be disabled by default? Maybe, but only if there was a
--enableplugins=GLOB command-line option (I call no-writesies!).


> 
> Could even go one step further and make a new plugin API version add the
> "on by default"-ness and then check the plugin version.  Which probably
> makes some sense.  In any case, it doesn't feel like 3.2.0 material to
> me.

Meh. Every existing plugin has their own config file, so doing this
won't change anything, really.

Where is 3.2.0, anyways?

-James

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