On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:21:29AM -0400, Carl Meyer wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chris Withers wrote: > The downside here is that it introduces one more wrinkle for installers > to worry about handling correctly. There are strong use cases for the > single bit "requested vs auto-installed"; nobody's yet presented use > cases for the additional log info. The only thing that comes to my mind > is UI niceties: being able to tell the user when, why, and by what agent > a package was installed. I'm not aware of existing package managers that > go that far; doesn't mean it's a bad idea. > rpm (one of the Linux package managers) tracks when a package was installed and when it was built.
-Toshio
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