-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 23-06-2005 13:28, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >>On 22-06-2005 22:15, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: >> >> >>>>Back in the woody days, we used to have the education-packages depend >>>>upon the various packages we wanted to include in the installation. >>>>Then, when we started to release our packages into the sarge repository, >>>>and there were depends, these depends blocked other packages from >>>>entering testing, because of conflicts. >>>>Therefor, Joey did a bit of rewriting, so that we recomended other >>>>packages, and that solved the conflicts. >>>>Now, since sarge is stable, there wont be new packages added or removed, >>>>and also since our new packages wont go into sarge, we can use depends >>>>instead of recommends, and that may solve some of the trouble with >>>>upgrades. Maybe not from woody installations, but for those who are >>>>putting prerelease of Sarge into production in a couple of months >>>>without proper support. >> >>Is this a problem when using aptitude? >>If so, is the reason perhaps that the aptitude is configured to not >>respect "recommends"? If so, upgrade instructions could say to use >>"aptitude --with-recommends" to override local preference while upgrading. > > > Will it force replacement if there is a conflict with already installed > packages ?
Don't think so. I get it now. :-) - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCuq3ln7DbMsAkQLgRAhX9AJ9K9TT+QjTSvmQQtN21TYs+qPjnBACbBRt6 dxOoUqgNbuC+DO6P8Kw/Gko= =VpQG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
