FC5 and Yum Plugins

Jeff Pitman jeff.pitman at gmail.com
Fri Dec 30 04:31:11 UTC 2005


On 12/30/05, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 08:34:36AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > So would third party repository maintainers consider Fedora Core
> > having protectbase by enabled acceptable?.
>
> I think the thread's consensus is that this would not benefit anyone
> as much as it puts pain to the 3rd party folks (maintainers and
> users).

Yep. I mean, it's not to say the plugin is bunk. But, having it on by
default causes an extra burden of support on both sides: core and
"alternatives". A user activating it means that they know what they're
doing, requiring much less support.

--
-jeff




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