[Yum] Repo priorities (2.2.1)

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 16:03 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > you can do all sorts of things to pre-empt them by using include/exclude
> > > lists but it's not the same thing as having a 'trump-card repo'
> > 
> > But maintaining include/exclude lists is also hard when you are pointing 
> > to "arbitrary" repositories.  It is not practical to scan the repositories 
> > and build include/exclude lists to add the functionality that was removed.
> 
> I don't disagree. But repository scoring as a super-epoch to trump
> versions of packages that are higher seem like the wrong solution to me.
> 

one more note - I'm not closed to solutions like this - but you have to
understand how the confusion for updates goes up when you think about
adding the repo scoring concepts.

So what other ways can y'all think up for doing this?

-sv