Hi, On Friday, April 20, 2007 at 15:06:34, Martin Schlander wrote: > Den Friday 20 April 2007 14:42:42 skrev Henne Vogelsang: > > > I like the suggestion a lot. The user will specifically want to > > > install the packman versions of crippled packages, but won't want > > > build service re-cripped newer versions to override them. > > > > This is is such a special usecase that you will only be able to solve > > this, without user knowledge, if you can mark repos as leading, > > authorative or whatever. I dont think you can (and should) solve these > > usecases on a package level. > > I think this is a quite common usecase actually. > > Many users will have KDE-backports, Packman and Guru and many packages exist > on two out of the three repos. And if you're not paying attention you'll be > playing 'ping-pong' as so elegantly put by Duncan. > > Amarok (most people will want Guru, BS version is crippled wrt. database > support I believe) > > [...]
And you should decide these on a package basis (setting something to taboo if you definately dont want it). This however should have nothing to do with the general policy. Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, Teamlead Core Services http://www.opensuse.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
