Jon Aimone wrote:
Hi,
You describe the "sticky" attribute as a feature of the publisher, yet
your examples and explanations seem to say this is actually an attribute
of the individual packages.
I agree that using the publisher as the selection criteria to make a set
of packages non-sticky would be a common case. Would it not also be a
valid case for someone to make just one or a small set of packages not
be sticky rather than everything from a given publisher?
Whether or not a publisher retains its packages can only be
seen in terms of its packages, but it's a per publisher
attribute.
I want to reduce complexity as much as possible; allowing
expression of different search preferences on a per-package
basis is rather more complicated than I wanted to go.
You can always explicitly specify a publisher, and that
publisher will be used if it provides the desired package
regardless of the search order.
- Bart
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