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

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 23:52 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 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.
> 

check in the spec file changes to the yum-utils package then.

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