[Yum-devel] RFC: Turning plugins on by default

[Kulbir Saini]

Other point of view:
	We may turn on the generic plugins like fastestmirror ( i hope 
everybody wants to download fast) and turn off other plugins which 
everybody may not use like changelog, download-only etc..

Kulbir Saini wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> -1.
> 
> Reason : I normally do 'yum install yum-*' even when I want only 2-3 
> plugins because I don't really care about the disk space they consume. 
> The other reason using above command may be that i want all of them to 
> be installed and will switch them ON whenever needed. And I think that 
> may be the case with a lot of people.
> 
> 
> 
> James Antill wrote:
>>  So atm. we have a couple of "super core" plugins which add repos.
>> and/or tweak network stuff and so really should be on "all the time". So
>> I'd like to propose that we change the defaults to plugins=True for all
>> of the yum-utils commands that don't have it atm.
>>
>>  Can anyone think of a reason why this is a bad idea?
>>
>>
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