Suggest you default to CONSERVATIVE but allow the user (perhaps in EXPERT
mode?) to chose from the others.
Jay Summet
> 1) CONSERVATIVE: just freshen those packages which can be freshened and
> leave the rest of the system as it is
>
> 2) FORCED: Force instalation of a new "core" system, even if this
> means downgroading, or breaks some functionality of the already installed
> system, then go on with freshening the rest of the packages.
>
> 3) REPAIR: Like conservative, but try to repair existing packages too,
> If we find out that some of the files are missing, or that someone fooled
> with binaries, reinstall the package (even if it means downgrading!)
>
> 4) FORCED REPAIR: like 3, but make sure that "core" system is installed in
> the end, like in 2
>
> 5) VANDAL: force install of the core, and upgrade of those packages we
> provide. The rest can go to hell. ;->>
>
> 6) SUPER-VANDAL: like 5, but i make sure that all packages older than one
> year are removed from the system. (ups, I just found another variable for
> sorting packages!)
> ...
