[CentOS-devel] Enabling PowerTools by default? (and proof-of-concept alternative)

Fri May 21 05:17:55 UTC 2021
Jack Aboutboul <jack at almalinux.org>


> On May 20, 2021, at 20:58, Michel Alexandre Salim <michel at michel-slm.name> wrote:
> 
> My pipe dream (doable, but I probably want to wait for the DNF ->
> microdnf rewrite dust to settle) is to be able to declare dependencies
> between repos.
> 
> e.g.
> 
> epel-release recommends (repo(PowerTools) if centos-stream-repos)
> => this signals to DNF that, hey, when epel-release is installed, flip
> PowerTools on, and if likewise PowerTools recommends another repo, it
> gets transitively enabled as well.
> 
Not for nothing but this would probably make alot of people happy. Especially those running their own local repos for stuff that need to pull things in from elsewhere.