On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 03:52:00PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
Protected packages was first implemented * as a yum plugin because Seth thought it was kind of crazy and shouldn't be core functionality, but then it proved itself in real use and became built-in. Now, the DNF pages says "Similar functionality can be implemented by a plugin", putting us right back where we were. **
Putting such functionality in a plugin is actually a bad idea, because those plugins only work for dnf. But packagekit does not use dnf, instead it directly calls functions from the hawkey library.
Cheers, Michael.