On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
> In a message dated: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 07:30:46 PST
> "Karl J. Runge" said:
>
> >Does it also tell you which *other* applications on the machine it just broke
> >because it upgraded a library or system tool?
>
> If it needs to upgrade anything, it tells you what it's upgrading, and asks
> you if you want to continue. If you decide to go ahead and find out later it
> broke something, you can then uninstall it and restore your system to the way
> it was.
>
Actually, as long as a package is available for the other stuff that
depends on what you want to install, and their dependencies are not
satisfied by your upgraded library or tool, it will check for newer
versions of them, and offer to upgrade them as well. It also will put
upgrades on "hold" if dependencies cannot be fulfilled. (I had this
happen a couple of times recently, had to do some looking with capt to
see what the reason for the hold was. This is one area that could
stand some improvement - better telling you WHY an upgrade is not
good. Of course, you an do a --forcepkg, which will override the
dependencies (like --force in RPM, I believe), but you're at your own
risk here.
> >(sorry couldn't resist -- I guess compatibility is my pet peeve with linux ;-)
>
> I would've left it at:
>
> I guess compatibility is my pet peeve...
>
> Doesn't matter whether it's with Linux, Solaris or Windows. Though that last
> one is hard to ever achieve any real compatibility ;)
>
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