Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Sarah Jelinek wrote: >> Hi David, >> >> Thanks so much for the detailed review. Answers/comments inline... >> >>> Quoth Sarah Jelinek on Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 01:21:48PM -0700: >>> [...] >> This statement doesn't necessarily mean that the GUI will allow an >> inconsistent selection of software. Perhaps the word "verification" >> is wrong, since it implies a post-selection process. I will work on >> this. >> >> That said, there are cases where users might want to select software >> that doesn't meet the consistency requirements. Certainly, we can't >> allow this in core Solaris services, but for some pkg groups, like >> applications, we might want to allow this. Users mix and match their >> own homegrown versions of stuff all the time so restricting this to >> enforce installation of all pkgs that show a dependency may not be >> the right way to go. >> >> The current install UI does allow you to select pkgs that don't meet >> the dependency requirements, notifies you of this, and allows you to >> go on if you choose. Not sure we want to take that away, but I don't >> think we have decided this level of detail yet. >> >> Regardless, the service itself does the consistency checking, and >> will work in concert with the GUI to notify the user or enforce a >> selection based on this. The UI's use the software selection service >> to get this data. >> > The SuSE Linux installer handles these issues on a per-selection > basis, esp. is autocheck is enabled. > It performs a dependency check whenever a package is > selected/deselected. It there is an inconsistency > it offers several choices to the user based on the type. One of the > choices is to simply ignore the > inconsistency. Hi Moinak,
This is good data to have. Thanks... sarah **** > > Regards, > Moinak. > >
