On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 23:51 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote: > > I think that a repository that overrides base packages is far more > damaging than any comments an individual can make on bugzilla or the > mailing list. It is essentially forking Fedora and causes a lot of > problems for the Fedora community. Such repositories are essentially > creating their own distribution and should not be acceptable. It > would be better for everyone, in my opinion, if these repositories > created their own distribution instead. > > Therefore, I propose that the 'protectbase' plugin, be actually > integrated into yum proper, and instead make a plugin which allows > repositories to override core packages. That is, the default should > be that no repository is allowed to override base packages unless you > specifically install a plugin to allow them to do so. > > Comments? File an RFE in bugzilla. josh -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
