2007/10/4, Stanislav Visnovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The most important feature for download and install is that you can operate > under very restricted situations, e.g. disk and memory requirements. > > I agree that on a running system, this is not the most effective approach. > What needs to be determined is to figure out how much space you can spare to > download the packages and this is not very easy to do. Just imagine a package > that will need to create a big new file in its post-install script (think > initrd for a new kernel). You can hardly predict, only to use heuristics. >
I agree, but it could be an option (where the user configures the repos) to choose what method will be used. There's no need to remove the actual behavior, but adding a new one an let the user select which want to use. Best regards. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
