FC5 and Yum Plugins

Jeff Pitman jeff.pitman at gmail.com
Fri Dec 30 03:01:10 UTC 2005


On 12/30/05, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/29/05, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> > Exactly. Which is why any repo, be it atrpms or something else, that
> > does see a need to replace package foo in core, and thus has
> > overlapping package sets with core will not like this idiom. I have
> > already been hit by bug reports that stem from improper use of
> > priorities/weights and scores. Such filtering creates a lot more
> > issues and debugging problems than it solves.
>
> let's be clear.... if protectbase plugin was turned on by default
> would atrpm leave it enabled on client system or would you attempt to
> disable the plugin via package scriptlet action?

For me, if someone wanted to use pyvault, I wouldn't automatically
disable it. But, I would have to document very prominently that if the
user wanted to use pyvault, they'd have to turn this off. And, it'd be
a FAQ, for sure.

--
-jeff




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