Another way is to define a list of suppressed packages, and set up apt-get so that it disregards anything that other packages say about those suppressed packages.
This is easy and modular. imho, this path sets a future course of action that is better avoided: Other packages suffering the same issue would have to be hacked along in this setup, Do you mean, the list of suppressed packages might contain more than one package name? It certainly might, and that's why I suggested making it a list. The list could be stored in a file. This seems quite clean to me. and it could get bloaty or, I don't have precise knowledge about what the fix would imply, but could make the gNS version of apt unique (and therefore, incompatible). It would mean making a small change in the code of apt. Could you explain what "unique (and therefore, incompatible)" means? Although it is hard or time consuming to rebuild the packs, it'll be for the best, as it will fix the issue instead of patching it. This solution is also fine, but it is more work. If people are reluctant to implement this solution because of the work, we should also consider the easier solution I proposed. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev