[PATCH] Remove enablement of whiteout/blackout plugins, and the requires on anaconda-yum-plugins.

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Dec 10 22:06:35 UTC 2013


Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> 1) blackout is for removing packages on upgrades. Upgrades no longer run
> through anaconda.
> 2) The metadata introduced to service these plugins has
> not undergone a single substantive, intentional update since Fedora 10.
> 
> Therefore, I am left to assume that their functionality is vestigial and
> should be removed. They'd be obsolete in a DNF world anyway.

This could go to rhel7-branch as well, given that the metadata for these
plugins doesn't even exist there.

Bill


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