[Yum] Stupid User Stories (was:Yum munging systems)

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 10:30 -0500, Sam Hart wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 11:17 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 11:08 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > > I think you would benefit, greatly, by adding a default plugin to your
> > > > systems once the current 2.3 tree goes to stable.
> > > > that plugin would count the number of packages in the 'remove' state and
> > > > simply exit if the number exceeds a certain amount or includes certain
> > > > packages, like rpm, or glibc. :)
> > > 
> > > Is this 'don't eat yourself' plugin going to be enabled by default? I know
> > > it's crack, but it's good crack....
> > 
> > it could be, I guess, it doesn't strike me as crack nearly as much as it
> > could be annoying for some subset of folks.
> 
> Well, provided there was an option to disable it (even if only in system
> wide config) then that same subset could disable it.
> 
> Chances are the subset who would be bothered by this would be more than
> capable of disabling.

disable the plugin in the config or yum --noplugins takes care of it.

-sv