[Slapt-get-devel] Spanning between repositories and ignoring packages (third party repositories)

Genghis Khan genghiskhan at gmx.ca
Sun Feb 5 16:11:00 EST 2012


On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 19:24:01 +0200
Genghis Khan <genghiskhan at gmx.ca> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 09:34:28 -0500
> "Jason Woodward" <woodwardj at jaos.org> wrote:
> 
> > The packager should declare that as so. 
> > 
> What about the "one by one" issue?
> 
And besides, it is not solving the third party repositories issue. The
third party repositories will stay the same.

A rule to treat to certain packages as the same (glibc = glibc-solibs)
and a warning every time this sort of an event is happening would be
helpful.

> On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 15:12:22 +0200
> Genghis Khan <genghiskhan at gmx.ca> wrote:
> 
> > 5) Pressing OK will result in installing ONLY the specifically
> > selected package (ignoring all the dependencies) instead of just
> > IGNORING the one dependency glibc-solibs which will be painful,
> > cumbersome and harder to install the rest of the dependencies
> > one-by-one, which, usually, also require glibc-solibs. (Big
> > Problem!)
> > 
> 


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