yum 2.1.0

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Sep 1 14:25:16 UTC 2004


> It'd also be nice if yum supported 'temporary' repositories that were
> passed to it on the command line or through library calls, so, for
> example, an application RPM could include some meta-data pointing toa
> repository containing dependencies, so users don't have to a) manually
> add the repository to their yum.conf or b) manually download all the
> dependencies.

It seems to me that a 'temporary' repository is a root kit waiting to
happen.

-sv







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