#14398: Add warning when downloading experimental/archive packages
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Reporter: nthiery | Owner: tbd
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.9
Component: build | Resolution:
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Changes (by jdemeyer):
* status: positive_review => needs_work
* component: packages: experimental => build
* milestone: sage-duplicate/invalid/wontfix => sage-5.9
* reviewer: Karl-Dieter Crisman, Jeroen Demeyer =>
* type: defect => enhancement
Old description:
> The graphviz spkg has been broken forever, and people get confused trying
> to install it rather than installing graphviz in their system. Let's
> remove it from experimental.
New description:
When the user does
{{{
./sage -i graphviz
}}}
there is no obvious clue that an experimental package is being installed.
So, we should make it so that downloading an experimental package this way
would first print a warning along the lines of
{{{
WARNING: you are about to download and install an experimental package.
This
probably won't work at all for you! Use at your own risk!
Are you sure you want to continue [Y/n]?
}}}
Something analogous for archive packages.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/14398#comment:12>
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