On Jun 24, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Danek Duvall wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:01:12PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
Removing things from the catalog in the suggested fashion also
eliminates the ability to do incremental updates and wipes out a
repository's updatelog.
You are correct that for installed packages, no ill-effects are
likely to occur other than a user being stuck with an orphaned
package that will not automatically be updated if it appears under
the aegis of another publisher.
I'd be willing to push those annoyances off to the developers using
the
repo, at least for a while. I really don't see them being a huge
deal.
For the first, you'll never get an updatelog, always a full catalog
(or it
shouldn't be hard to make that be the behavior), but again, /pending
should
be reasonably small. And for the second, it's not hard to make "pkg
uninstall" be part of the testing process.
If the jucr folks would like to come up with a plan that would take
care of
these issues, we can discuss that here, but I think the core team has
higher priority things on the list for now. If we start to get
reports of
people saying they won't use jucr because of these issues, then we can
certainly revisit the priority.
I've stated that we are happy to fix tracebacks, but actually
improving the experience will require discussion and prioritisation.
So, I think we're in complete agreement.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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