On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:24:36 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 19 November 2010 18:17, Camaleón wrote: >> Something like having a "global switch" that prevents any of dpkg, apt- >> get, aptitude... to get a package going through and warns the user >> about it. > > It doesn't need to be global, something that works with either apt or > aptitude will do, since these are the tools that can be used for > live-build to create the image.
It has to be global in order to affect all package manager tools. If not, when a user installs a package by other means, the "tabu" one could be also installed and that should be prevented. > Warning the user would be pointless though, since it's not an > interactive process. Not all updates/installations are fully interactive. There can be situations when manual intervention is required. So, if a package policy is being applied and the user has deciced to block the installation of a bunch of packages but these packages pull another packages that are marked as "tabu", a warning message should be displayed to the user, asking what to do (just in case of conflicts, broken dependencies or problems). Note that I'm not talking here about just _your concrete_ situation, this option could be useful for everyone. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.11.19.10.39...@gmail.com
