Dňa Thursday 04 October 2007 15:00:44 Gabriel . ste napísal:
> 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.

Yes, I agre with configurability of the behavior and also the default to 'try 
to install as much as possible together' on the running system.

The original question was 'give me a strong argument why it behaves this 
way' ;-)

Stano
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