On 19 Aug 2015, at 11:04, Fabrice Le Fessant <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Louis Gesbert
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> package, preventing "opam-cache", etc.), either to reserve names for
>>> possible plugins ("search", "file", "git", etc).
>> 
>> "search" is already an opam command :)
> 
> Is it planned to have a dynlink mechanism for plugins ? Then, it would
> be possible to override existing builtin commands from inside.
> Another possibility would be to have aliases for builtins, and allow
> to override their default names: for example, if I type "opam search
> XXX", opam would first call "opam-search", and only if it does not
> exist, call the builtin. Then "opam-search" would be able to call
> "opam builtins search XXX" to access the builtin command with enhanced
> parameters...
> 

Do you have a use-case in mind for this?

-anil
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