Bart Smaalders wrote:
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.
Fair 'nuf. Less complexity is generally the better road to take.
And I guess I can always create my own publisher with just the packages I want. In a development environment, that would probably work just fine.You can always explicitly specify a publisher, and that publisher will be used if it provides the desired package regardless of the search order.
Overall this looks like a good plan with enough knobs to get the job done.
- Bart
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