Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 09:55 -0800, Bart Smaalders wrote:
>> Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
>>
>>> It wasn't really an ARC concern. It was our decision and it made
>>> sense at the time. Hopefully IPS will be better at dealing with
>>> packaging changes / upgrades (although currently I don't think it is).
>> Do you have any specific concerns here? Can you give an example
>> of what sort of packaging changes you feel IPS doesn't handle?
>
> Nothing that it couldn't handle, but AFAIK, we don't currently
> have the infrastructure in place to deal with splitting, merging,
> obsoleting packages, moving files from one package to another, etc.
> I know it can all be done with dependencies (do 'optional minimum'
> deps work yet?) but adding those deps is a manual process and not
> trivial.
The package manager GUI will likely need some work to present these
more cleanly, so we don't get more user confusion like we do today
with the "empty" package placeholders used to pseudo-delete obsolete
packages.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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