[Yum-devel] minor patch for kernel-module plugin

[Panu Matilainen]

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 10:54 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I was just testing different yum plugins in yumex, and found out that
> the kernel-module plugin dont have any plugin type definded,
> so it will not get loaded in yumex and pup, (They only load TYPE_CORE
> plugins) so i made a little patch.

Thanks, applied.

> What about making a yum-utils-plugins rpm in Fedora Extras with all the
> plugins in yum-utils\plugins with enabled=0 in the conf files.
> I would make it easier for users to start using some of the great plugins.

It's been discussed before - the thing is that ATM it doesn't really
make sense to package *all* the plugins as they're in various stages of
development, some more ready than others and are only packaged on "is
somebody willing to support the plugin" basis. 

Also for example kernel-module plugin is a bit questionable for FE since
FE doesn't have any kernel modules and the planned way of packaging them
some sunny day is completely different from what the plugin supports.

> I have thougt about make a dialog in yumex for enable/disable the
> installed plugins to make it easier for the user to
> use plugins.

I think it's better to work out the wrinkles in plugin support wrt GUI
frontends to yum than force users to disable and enable plugins
manually. I know of a few problematic cases like plugins expecting to
find optparse instance in the main yum object (changelog plugin causing
tracebacks with pup and yumex for example) - but have you seen other
similar cases and what exactly are those?

	- Panu -