[Yum-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Add skip-broken to YumBase

[James Bowes]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 01:04:44PM +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> This raise some questions where we want to go with the yum devlopment:
> * What do we want add to the current 3.2.x
> * When do we want too make a new unstable branch and what feature do we 
> want to add.
>
> Brainstorming:
>   * better, cleaner, faster depsolver.
>   * more unittest testcases, not only the lowlevel API but also the 
> highlevel stuff (YumBase: update, remove, install etc)
>   * http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumTodo
>   * cleanup the logging and make it more simple (do we need all that 
> logging levels, something like quiet, normal, verbose, debug should be 
> enough (--quiet, -v -vv )
>   * cleanup the API and maybe move some code from yum-cli to YumBase to 
> make it easier to use the Yum api, without needing a lot of code from yum 
> cli.
>   * yum gui api to make it easier to use yum api from gui apps. 
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/TimLauridsen/YumGuiBackBone)
>   * Document the API.
>   * Localization
>   * Multiarch handling, sould it be different than today.
>   * Add your own ideas here.
>   * And here too

I agree with all of these, especially localization.

Does it make sense to start an unstable branch now for F9/EL6? I'd love
to remove all of the deprecated stuff and cut down on the number of
package classes.

-James
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