Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fran�ois Pons wrote: > > Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded: > >>evolution-1.4.3-1mdk.i586 (due to missing libcom_err.so.3) (y/N) n > >> > >>My options there are: hit Y and lose Evolution, or hit N and get nothing > >>installed. Surely there should now be an option to install everything > >>but the package(s) that want(s) Evolution to be removed? > > > > > > You can do a urpmi --auto-select --skip evolution ;-) > > > > I don't believe in this features, since all available docs tells me > there is no such feature ;-).
You are right, sorry, I read the following packages cannot be selected :-( > # urpmi --help 2>&1|grep skip > # bzcat /usr/share/man/man8/urpmi.8.bz2 |grep skip > .FN /etc/urpmi/skip.list > > Of course, I think Adam was looking for a message: > > "The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded: > evolution-1.4.3-1mdk.i586 (due to missing libcom_err.so.3), or you can > upgrade (U) all packages which won't force uninstallation of other > packages (y/n/U)" > > After having had to get into a habit of reinstalling removed software, > IMHO it would be nice if this were the default when --auto-select > --auto, overridden by something like --allow-remove. This is a great features in fact, yes, I may add something similar. Shouldn't I say "or you can skip upgrade of other packages that cause uninstallation of this one (s) ?" which sounds more appropriate ? Regards, Fran�ois.
