Le jeudi 02 janvier 2014 à 16:08 -0500, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : > Hi > > > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > This one is clearly one of those "doomed to repeat history" > things in > motion. > > Protected packages was first implemented * as a yum plugin > because Seth > thought it was kind of crazy and shouldn't be core > functionality, but then > it proved itself in real use and became built-in. Now, the DNF > pages says > "Similar functionality can be implemented by a plugin", > putting us right > back where we were. ** > > > Pretty much, yeah. I remember trying to convince Seth to merge the > functionality and got pretty similar replies to what I hear from Ales > now. Similar issues at > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1044984 and > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1044984. I really dislike > going through the same process twice. Pushing such functionality out > into plugins won't work well either because by the time users realize > that such a plugin exists and they might need them, it is likely to be > too late and if you discard existing features without understanding > the use cases fully, you will end up creating a rough transition for > users. If someone is going to replace A with B, it would be nice for > the developers involved to go through the release history and bugs and > find out why the current functionality was done the way it was before > deciding to change it. It could be implemented as a plugin and still installed by default. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
