On Jun 18, 2016, at 4:39 AM, Ned Slider <n...@unixmail.co.uk> wrote: > > On 17/06/16 20:04, Warren Young wrote: >> >> I realize it is in the CentOS project’s best interest if users always use >> the fastest mirror when downloading, but I claim that it is a bug to mark >> any plugin as Requires, particularly when upstream does not. > > Personally, I'm firmly in favour of having fastestmirror plugin as a > dependency in yum as it will benefit the vast majority of people IMHO.
As I said, I am in favor of having the plugin installed by default. However, making it a dependency of yum is not the only way to do that. It could be moved into the Base package set. Then someone who doesn’t want it can remove it. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
