'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 25/06/11 23:16 did gyre and gimble: >> we >> always say that backports should mainly be cherry picked, but not >> enabled all the time... so how does installing a new version of e.g. >> wine break the user's system when he can easily back out that rpm? > > I a not sure that most people realize they can revert. Maybe a easier > interface to do that could be offered ( along maybe with a tool that > send feedback on why it did downgrade it ? ).
I've seen various ppa-purge commands being dished out for custom PPAs on Ubuntu. It looks like quite a nice idea, but only really applies for individual use archives (e.g. help us test the development version of $foo), not a general purpose one like "backports". That said, a GUI which detected that certain packages have come from backports and offers and easy mechanism to "switch" back to the older one from release or updates would, IMO, be a plus. Col -- Colin Guthrie mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
