yum RFE

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Wed Oct 18 17:38:49 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 13:15 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> I am reluctantly in Mr. Stone's camp here.
> 
> Reluctantly, because the strident nature of the evolution of this thread 
> has obscured what I find to be a real issue: the question of what is and 
> isn't "blessed" in the universe of Fedora packages.
> 
> There are *a lot* of people don't quite understand how packages work -- 
> and they certainly don't understand the ramifications of using a repo that 
> overwrites packages from Core.
> 
> I don't think it's unreasonable to package this plugin.  I don't even 
> think it's unreasonable to enable it by default; I certainly think it's a 
> potentially worthwhile discussion.
> 
> Is it a sensible compromise to include this plug-in by default for now?

I think it's sensible to include the plugin in the Fedora package.
Whether it should be enabled by default or not... dunno.

josh




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