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Martin Schlander schreef:
> Den Friday 20 April 2007 14:42:42 skrev Henne Vogelsang:
>>> I like the suggestion a lot. The user will specifically want to
>>> install the packman versions of crippled packages, but won't want
>>> build service re-cripped newer versions to override them.
>> This is is such a special usecase that you will only be able to solve
>> this, without user knowledge, if you can mark repos as leading,
>> authorative or whatever. I dont think you can (and should) solve these
>> usecases on a package level.
>
> I think this is a quite common usecase actually.
>
> Many users will have KDE-backports, Packman and Guru and many packages exist
> on two out of the three repos. And if you're not paying attention you'll be
> playing 'ping-pong' as so elegantly put by Duncan.
>
> Amarok (most people will want Guru, BS version is crippled wrt. database
> support I believe)

This is correct..
>
> Ktorrent (most people will want Guru, BS-version crippled wrt. DHT)
>
> Digikam (most people will want the backported version cuz the packman version
> causes problems with some libs)
>
> K3b (sometimes packman has had development builds, which not all will want)
>
> Alsa (if your sounds working nicely why would you want to do a risky upgrade
> automatically for something like that).

Agree..
>
> To name a few very popular packages where I'm aware of problems (presently or
> in the past).
>
Yes...

> I wonder, do kde-backports and kde-playground have same vendor? If not this
> behaviour would also make it possible to have kde-playground enabled for
> certain packages, without constantly having to be alert as to whether you're
> updating to something alphaish.

You hit the nail on the head....
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