On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Anderson Lizardo <anderson.liza...@openbossa.org> wrote: > > * If I understood Mikko's explanation right, HAM will not upgrade a > dependency automatically (unlike "apt-get upgrade"), unless a > installed (or to be installed) user/* application exclicitely Depends > on that new version (i.e. uses "Depends: package (>= x.y)", where x.y > is the newer version). If that's correct, each new version of a > dependency that contains a important fix will require *all* Python > applications updating their versions to include the new required > version in debian/control, if we want the user to have that fix. > > Mikko: feel free to correct me if I made a mistake.
Yes, you understood correctly. > * installing this metapackage will obviously install *all* PyMaemo > packages, which will take unnecessarily precious storage even if not > all packages are used. But this user/hidden (which I've never heard of) is different. It seems that user/hidden packages get the same treatment as other user/ packages for updates, but they cannot be separately installed. User/hidden pacakge could be part of the solution, but it's still awkward and unnecessary hack compared to normal upgrades. If user/hidden was used all python apps should depend on big pymaemo metapackage, which would pull all packages even if not needed as you said. But if user/hidden is already (or soon) there, it might be the best option available. After all application space isn't big issue anymore, and after installing 2-3 python application you have practically installed all pymaemo packages anyway. -- Mikko Vartiainen _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
