Hello,
on Dienstag, 17. April 2007, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> bug 264685 (Get rid of package locks in package manager) asks for
> reasoning of and better concepts for locking packages in the package
> manager.
[...]
> The current solution to the above scenarious is to group packages
> based on their vendor attribute.
Can you tell us some details? My impression always was that non-SUSE
packages are always locked. Or did I miss some details?
> Packages from unknown vendors
> are auto-protected in order to prevent unwanted replacements.
>
> This is a very effective but also very limited solution.
>
> Proposals anyone ?
IMHO, it's impossible to solve the usecases you posted automatically.
Therefore, I'd like to have a dialog like
Package updates - change vendor?
You have installed package foo from $VENDOR, but there's a newer
version available from $OTHER_VENDOR.
What do you want to do?
[Install package from $OTHER_VENDOR] [keep package from $VENDOR]
[x] remember decicion for this package
[x] remember decicion for vendor $VENDOR
[x] remember decicion for all vendors
So you would have the best of every solution:
- no automatic cross-vendor that could remove some features
- no package locks, "normal" dependency solving is possible
- the user knows what's going on - seems to be really important because
both the "lock all" and "lock none" method seem to imply that the user
is surprised[tm] sooner or later
Yes, it's another dialog to answer - but it's better than any automatic
decision nobody really likes.
Regards,
Christian Boltz
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