[Yum-devel] Now that we have a kernel module standard

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 01:21 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > Also, what functionality should be in Yum propper vs. a plugin?
> 
> I think the whole kernel-module mess belongs to a plugin as long as
> there is not standard across *all* major rpm distro vendors (yeah, dream
> on). The proposed standard only concerns Fedora Extras (even FC is not
> included but then FC has no policies whatsoever really), having
> FE-specific code in Yum doesn't sound right to me.

FWIW, the GFS packages should be moving over to the standard being used
for Extras.  But I still think it should be a plugin (although I'll ship
the plugin enabled with the Fedora Core yum package) because I'm sure
people other than Fedora aren't ready for it :-)

Jeremy