On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 11:07 -0800, Jef Spaleta wrote: > > > > And since we seem to only be talking about optimization of policy > rules (which could and probably should equally apply to all depsolvers > in Fedora) shouldn't it be possible to encode your possibly more > optimal policy rules as a yum plugin specifically so we can do some > testing without conflating the depsolving policy optimization with > other tehcnical changes? If your approach to depsolving really is > better, we should be able to test that systematically with existing > repo data transactions and build a case for a depsolving rule change > as part of yum's evolution. >
As a point of fact we added a depsolving plugin hook for compare_providers over a year ago into the yum codebase. Specifically so anyone could do fun and exciting additions to compare_providers and/or request user input on the decisions. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
