On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Raul Miller wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Then all depends must be converted to pre-depends, converting some doesn't > > do much at all. > > I don't like this solution. There must be a better way. > > I need to think about this issue (I'm currently considering: > a mechanism to locally promote non-essential packages to essential,
Hmm, I would have to check to be certain, but I think I coded things so that if a packages was mentioned as essential it would apply to all versions.. > with automatic promoting of depends to pre-depends, and a > strick concept of package order which won't unpack something > with unsatisfied dependencies unless they're part of a circle > which includes that package). You mean like Deity? It goes one step further and promotes all dependants of essential packages to be immediate-configure as well as doing the above. Perhaps the best thing is to have a /var/state/deity/status.user which is never touched by any programs. Then if you felt netstd was important just put Package: netstd Essential: yes Or if you wanted immediate configuration of something, Package: foo Flags: immediate-configure Or like I would like with CVS on va (sort of a super-hold), Package: cvs Flags: never-download Of course the flags tag doesn't exist. Jason -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
