yum RFE

[Christopher Stone]

On 10/18/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 October 2006 14:16, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> > "The operation you're about to perform will replace a core package. This
> > could make it more difficult to maintain your system. If you're *sure*
> > you want to do this, edit foo and change bar to baz."
>
> Interesting idea, but where does this go?  Unless you make the update actions
> interactive during the install by the time you see this its too late.  And
> I'm pretty sure we don't want to make the update processes interactive any
> more than 'here is a list, click next to go'.

Actually I believe the protectbase plugin does exactly this.  All that
needs to be done is to enable this plugin by default and issue a
warning:

"The operation you're about to perform will replace a core package. This
could make it more difficult to maintain your system. If you're *sure*
you want to do this, issue the command yum remove yum-protectbase"