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

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