[Yum-devel] new simple "protectyum" plugin

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Jun 12 13:39:05 UTC 2007


On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 07:54:44PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> I'm really attracted to the elegance of not having any magic list at all.
> But I can admit the reality of it being a useful possibility. :)

Sooo.... if we were to go this way, I'm thinking the list should be in
/etc/sysconfig/essentialpackages, and that list owned by something
distro-specific, like fedora-release. If the file doesn't exist, it'd fall
back to just "yum".



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