At Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:20:24 +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > >>>>> You have not yet explained why apt pinning is not enough. > > >>> Simply because apt is not the only way to install packages. > > >> Don't synaptic and/or whatever honor these pins too? > > > I have no idea about synaptic, but there’s e.g. cupt (which > > works as apt replacement, but probably (didn’t check) handles > > its configs the same…) and dselect (which uses dpkg and thus > > is one level “below” apt, and cannot be reasonably expected to > > use apt’s configs). > > Isn't the proper solution to add blacklisting support to dpkg, then?
No, the proper solution is pinning and that's already implemented. A quick search turns up a bug report about pinning in cupt, from which I conclude that cupt also implements it. Synaptic also implements it. And dselect is obsolete and doesn't even support things like multiarch (see #664893). It would also ask you to confirm installing extra packages if I remember correctly, but I haven't used dselect for a very long time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87oax636tt.wl%jer...@dekkers.ch
