On 21 June 2012 17:36, AL13N <al...@rmail.be> wrote: >> A. fetch dependencies only from enabled release/update repositories >> Problems: >> - patch doesn't exist yet and code complexity is alot higher >> - if backports are enabled, a dependency fetched from release could >> conflict with other installed (from backports or other). thus the update >> would fail. >> >> Solutions for this: >> - this is not cleanly solvable, we would have to remove the backport. > [...] > > In this thread at the moment, I see mostly people having (personal > preference) problems with how i would solve this bug. > > while they aren't less important, what I would rather see in this thread > is alternative solutions, or how the problem with A can be solved if it > happens. > > even if both A and B are regarded as bad, I'd even prefer people to say > that B is the lesser evil. > > complaining on how B is not good for you, doesn't get us anywhere with > this bug. > > So please, give alternative solutions or state how A is perfectly viable.
You're inversing the roles :-) You cannot knowly break things just b/c of one need (which btw was managed back @mdv). You're trading one infrastruture enhancement for: - several new usability issues: o more memory o slower to compute updates - breaking people installation by blindly installing all backports along updates if they're ever enabled. - ...
