Sarah Jelinek wrote: > Hi David, > > Thanks so much for the detailed review. Answers/comments inline... > >> Quoth Sarah Jelinek on Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 01:21:48PM -0700: >> [...] > This statement doesn't necessarily mean that the GUI will allow an > inconsistent selection of software. Perhaps the word "verification" is > wrong, since it implies a post-selection process. I will work on this. > > That said, there are cases where users might want to select software > that doesn't meet the consistency requirements. Certainly, we can't > allow this in core Solaris services, but for some pkg groups, like > applications, we might want to allow this. Users mix and match their > own homegrown versions of stuff all the time so restricting this to > enforce installation of all pkgs that show a dependency may not be the > right way to go. > > The current install UI does allow you to select pkgs that don't meet > the dependency requirements, notifies you of this, and allows you to > go on if you choose. Not sure we want to take that away, but I don't > think we have decided this level of detail yet. > > Regardless, the service itself does the consistency checking, and will > work in concert with the GUI to notify the user or enforce a selection > based on this. The UI's use the software selection service to get this > data. > The SuSE Linux installer handles these issues on a per-selection basis, esp. is autocheck is enabled. It performs a dependency check whenever a package is selected/deselected. It there is an inconsistency it offers several choices to the user based on the type. One of the choices is to simply ignore the inconsistency.
Regards, Moinak.
