possible default changes to yum.conf

All,

What do people think about modifying the default yum.conf
file to
contain the following:

plugins=1

This is an essential setting if people want to install the 2
"extras"
plugins yum-plugin-fastestmirror and yum-plugin-priorities
(both of
which I highly recommend).

CentOS currently ships with no plugins setting yum.conf, and
the default
is 0.  If installing plugins, this setting must be manually
added to
yum.conf.

This is documented in the readme's for the plugins, in the
"installing
software with yum" guide in CentOS Docs, and on the
CentOS wiki ...
however people still mess up their machines because they
install the
plugins, do not set the setting, and do upgrades.

There are no plans to ship any plugins in the default
CentOS-4, however
I think it would be good to turn on the
"plugins=1" setting by default.
That way when people install plugins, they will work without
requiring
mods to yum.conf. I think that is what most users expect, as
it has been
the default in Fedora Core since at least FC3 and it is the
default in
RHEL 5 beta 2.

What does everyone else think?

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
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> What does everyone else think?

Sounds reasonable to me.


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On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:57:32 -0500
"Jim Perrin" <jperringmail.com> wrote:

> > What does everyone else think?
> 
> Sounds reasonable to me.

AOL. It makes yum more predictable. And since the plugins
are in
Extras, the user already has to enable a plugin explicitly
by
installing it.

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--- Jim Perrin <jperringmail.com> wrote:

> > What does everyone else think?
> 
> Sounds reasonable to me.
I agree
If Fedora and RHEL use that setting or are going to
use it, Centos should use it too 

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Jim Perrin napsal(a):
> Sounds reasonable to me.
> 
To me too. I'd like to see yum-plugin-fastestmirror and
fasttrack repo
enabled by default too.
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Roger PeXa Escobio wrote:
> --- Jim Perrin <jperringmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> What does everyone else think?
>> Sounds reasonable to me.
> I agree
> If Fedora and RHEL use that setting or are going to
> use it, Centos should use it too 

RHEL has no yum, and Fedora's yum has nothing to do with
what we use.


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David Hrbáč wrote:
> Jim Perrin napsal(a):
>> Sounds reasonable to me.
>>
> To me too. I'd like to see yum-plugin-fastestmirror and
fasttrack repo
> enabled by default too.

considering the fasttrack released packages are not
officially 
supported, Vendors are quite right in not expecting them to
be 
installed. That repo should not be enabled by default. If
and when they 
do make it into release, the packages make their way down to
the base os 
repo anyway.

Its a user choice to make, they must have the option and an
opt-in is, 
imho, the way to make that work.

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> To me too. I'd like to see yum-plugin-fastestmirror and
fasttrack repo
> enabled by default too.

I disagree with this part. Plugins should be set enabled by
default
only because no plugins ship with yum, and a user must
enable the
Extras (or other repo) to get them.

The default repositories are fine, and while the fasttrack
repository
is certainly a good thing, it should not be the default, as
it is not
enabled by default upstream either, and some packages in
fasttrack may
change before they actually make it to the base/updates
repositories.


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On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 01:37 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Roger PeXa Escobio wrote:
> > --- Jim Perrin <jperringmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>> What does everyone else think?
> >> Sounds reasonable to me.
> > I agree
> > If Fedora and RHEL use that setting or are going
to
> > use it, Centos should use it too 
> 
> RHEL has no yum, and Fedora's yum has nothing to do
with what we use.

RHEL5b2 does and plugins are on there.

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seth vidal wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 01:37 +0000, Karanbir Singh
wrote:
>> Roger PeXa Escobio wrote:
>>> --- Jim Perrin <jperringmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> What does everyone else think?
>>>> Sounds reasonable to me.
>>> I agree
>>> If Fedora and RHEL use that setting or are
going to
>>> use it, Centos should use it too 
>> RHEL has no yum, and Fedora's yum has nothing to do
with what we use.
> 
> RHEL5b2 does and plugins are on there.

right,  but these are changes being proposed in CentOS-4

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