[Yum-devel] Time for new yum-utils release?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Menno Smits wrote:

> Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> On a related note - any thoughts about packaging the plugins? I think
>> it'd be nice to have the plugins as separate packages so they'd get
>> properly updated, instead of just including them as %doc. And if they're
>> to be packaged, should we just call them yum-<pluginname> or something
>> like yum-plugin-<name>? The latter would at least be very obvious what
>> those things are, but 'yum-protectbase' is quite clear as well.
>
> I thought the plugins in yum-utils were mainly there as examples for people 
> to work from. Seth didn't want to have to maintain all the crack in there as 
> the Yum API evolves. Given that the plugins aren't necessarily being tested 
> for every Yum release it might not be a good idea to start packaging them.
>
> On the other hand, if someone wants to put their hand up and maintain the 
> yum-utils plugins so they continue to work as Yum changes, I'm sure that'd be 
> welcome. I'd be all for packaging the plugins if that was the case.

Fair enough. So let's package selectively only those which are actively 
maintained instead of all of them - changelog is one such plugin, simply 
because I use it myself all the time.

Oh and like Matthew, I kinda prefer the yum-<name> approach as well, 
yum-plugin-<name> makes for rather long packagenames. Not that I care too 
much though.

 	- Panu -