Proposal: install dnf-plugins-core by default

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 29 15:47:12 UTC 2014


On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Jiri Eischmann <eischmann at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I tested the latest compose of F21 Workstation and found out that
> dnf-plugins-core was not included in the default installation.
>
> IMHO it's something we should fix. The package includes plugins that
> allow users to easily work with Copr repositories and the planned
> Playground repository. It should be part of the default user experience
> because it's one of the nice details and integration with our services.
> Copr has proven to be useful for both us (to give early adopters
> software they can test, e.g. GNOME 3.12 in F20) and users (to easily get
> new software which is not included in the official repositories yet) and
> we should make working with it as easy as possible.
>
> For those who don't know it: with this plugin you can easily add/remove
> Copr repositores just by "dnf enable/disable name/project" instead of
> inconvenient copying/deleting repo files.
>
> I know that DNF is not yet the default package manager, but many users
> already use it instead of yum just for these kind of things, so let's
> give them the full experience of DNF.
>
> An impact on the image size is minimal. The total size of
> dnf-plugins-core including all its dependencies is 151 kB.

I'd be OK with this.

josh


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