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

Genghis Khan genghiskhan at gmx.ca
Sat Jan 7 08:12:22 EST 2012


The users of Salix OS GNU/Linux who want to use third party
repositories with Gslapt have a particular annoying problem with a
package named as glibc-solibs (excluded package) which is required by
most of the Slackware repositories and yet Salix OS has glibc installed
instead http://salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=363 (this thread
is repeating itself, probably because searching for glibc-solibs will
give no results).
http://salixos.org/forum/search.php?keywords=glibc-solibs


This is causing to the following scenario:
1) Select a package to install from the Slacky.eu repository.
2) Execute
3) A message: glibc-solibs, which is required by <PACKAGE>, is excluded
4) Pressing Cancel: Results in not letting the user to select this
package again (restart of Gslapt is required) -- Can this be changed?
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!)


Request:
1) Add an [OK and Ignore] button or [Ignore and Continue nstallation] or
just don't skip the rest of the packages and ignore glibc-solibs when
the OK button is pressed.
2) (Less important) Add an option to
	treat <X> package as if it was <Y>.
	treat glibc-solibs as if it was glibc.


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