Hi Francesco, On 2011-10-17 23:36, Francesco Poli wrote: > However, cupt happily goes on and attempts to install derivations, > until apt-listbugs kicks in and warns the user (again!) that there's a > bug: [...] > If I recall correctly one conversation I had with you (Eugene) back on > January 2010, this behavior is intentional. > Only automatic installations of the low Pin-Priority package (as > recommendations, or dependencies with alternatives, for instance) are > prevented by cupt. The explicit request to install the low Pin-Priority > package will be honored, no matter how low the Pin-Priority is.
Exactly, with one remark that even for soft dependencies or alternatives it's not absolutely "prevented", but for example they may be suggested if user explicitly rejects all better solutions. I actually like this behavior more than apt-based' package manager ones'. One more warning is maybe worth implementing in the user interface, but that's it. But I am biased, of course. > Assuming that this is true and confirmed, is the modification of > apt-listbugs (so that it uses -30000 instead of -40 as Pin-Priority to > prevent the installation of a package) still useful? As for me -- yes. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
