On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Laura Creighton <[email protected]> wrote: > In a message of Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:09:17 +0200, Tarek Ziadé writes: > <snip> > >>Frankly, I don't really understand why you are concerned with this trust >>issues, >>a end-user that installs a software is already trusting it, since it >>installs it... >> >>If you don't trust a project, and in particular what it claims in its >>Obsoletes or >>Conflict fields, just don't install it, and you'll be fine. >> >> >>Tarek > > I need to be able to download packages so that I can evaluate them and see > whether I trust them -- and whether I agree with the package author that > this package makes obsolete a different one that I am already using. I > won't be able to make this sort of evaluation if my old existing packages > are blindly removed.
This will never happen: the installer will stop and just state that there's a conflict and the installation cannot continue. Exactly like it does if a installed version of "Foo" is conflicting with the version of "Foo" the project to be installed wants to use. e.g. this is to be addressed at the installer software level > Laura > > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
