[Yum-devel] [RFC] Changing the yum plugin naming

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 11:49 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> There is a proposal in this bugzilla report[1] about changing the name of the plugins in yum-utils
> from yum-<pluginname> to yum-plugin-<pluginname>.
> I just want to hear what YOU are feeling about this change.
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> [1] http://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=848

If we just change package names but don't change the plugin name then
we'll not have to do that ugly of magic with moving people's conf files.

Nevertheless an obsolete of the old one will cause a bunch of pain.

I'm not sure that organizational benefits are worth it given the
widespread use of plugins.

-sv