Anssi Hannula wrote: > IMHO the optimal situation (for both > Mandriva and PLF) would be that all pkgs (unless the maintainer doesn't > want to for some good reason) are backported, but by default no > backported packages are installed. Then the user could choose to e.g. > always install new xchat backports. (of course this applies only to pkgs > that no external pkgs require, e.g. firefox shouldn't be backported) > > Unfortunately I have no idea how that could be implemented without > massive changes to urpmi. >
Well, after some thought, urpmi wouldn't need so massive changes, only a filter to allow only certain pkgs from certain pkg source. By accident I noticed that the Debian Backports project has it working just like that: http://www.backports.org/instructions.html What do you think? -- Anssi Hannula _______________________________________________ PLF-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/plf-discuss
