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

[Johnny Hughes]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 23:04 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I agree it should be in a plugin. However, b/c of how useful this will
> most likely be to users AND b/c of the potential value if other distros
> adopt this packaging policy maybe we should discuss including a plugin
> IN the yum base package. So that nothing else needs to be grabbed to try
> it out. It helps promote this packaging policy and the plugin w/o
> forcing it on everyone.
> 
> Thoughts?
> -sv
> 
> 

I think that the kernel module plugin would be great.  I the protectbase
plugin should be included too ... and maybe fastestmirror after
something is done concerning proxies.
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