Le Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:43:16AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs a écrit :
> Russ Allbery:
> >
> > Do you actually do this? Is optional actually conflict-free? I'm pretty
> > sure it isn't.
> >
> No, it's not. But I'd like it to be.
>
> However, if a consensus should emerge that it's too much hassl
Hi,
Russ Allbery:
> > Let's assume that I have a large multiuser Debian system. I don't want
> > to be bothered by people requesting this or that package all the time,
> > so I simply install everything that's of priority
> Has anyone actually done this in the last five years? I'm extremely
> d
Matthias Urlichs writes:
> Russ Allbery:
>> Could you say more about why you think conflicting packages having a
>> separate priority from optional is useful? When would people use that
>> priority information, and how?
> Let's assume that I have a large multiuser Debian system. I don't want
>
Russ Allbery writes:
> Ansgar Burchardt writes:
>> Stuart Prescott writes:
I find Priority: extra useful for at least transitional packages,
detached debug symbols, and packages conflicting with packages of
priority >= important (or maybe >= standard) that will continue to do
Russ Allbery writes:
> Ansgar Burchardt writes:
>> Stuart Prescott writes:
>> Related to that: Given d-i/debootstrap are the main users, I think
>> having d-i ignore the priority of library packages already[1] is an
>> indication that allowing packages to depend on library packages with
>> lower
Hi,
Russ Allbery:
> Could you say more about why you think conflicting packages having a
> separate priority from optional is useful? When would people use that
> priority information, and how?
>
Let's assume that I have a large multiuser Debian system. I don't want to
be bothered by people requ
Ansgar Burchardt writes:
> Stuart Prescott writes:
>>> I find Priority: extra useful for at least transitional packages,
>>> detached debug symbols, and packages conflicting with packages of
>>> priority >= important (or maybe >= standard) that will continue to do
>>> so, say for example alterna
[ CC'ed #758234 as Stuart's questions are also related to that. ]
Stuart Prescott writes:
>> Gerrit Pape writes:
>>> Since discussion on this topic seems to have stopped, I suggest this
>>> patch to remove the priority "extra" for Debian packages.
>>>
>>> All packages that currently are of prior
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