[pacman-dev] pacman should ask the user on multipile choices
Hi, I am not sure if this is a bug or missing feature; so I sent this to the ml first. Sometime a package depends on a "meta" package which is provided by more than one packages. For example "libgl" or "smtp-server". At the moment pacman just installs the first package it founds which is the wrong decision for most cases. So pacman has to ask the user in such cases. -- http://www.archlinux.de
2007/3/7, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>:
Hi,
I am not sure if this is a bug or missing feature; so I sent this to the ml first.
Sometime a package depends on a "meta" package which is provided by more than one packages. For example "libgl" or "smtp-server". At the moment pacman just installs the first package it founds which is the wrong decision for most cases.
So pacman has to ask the user in such cases.
IIRC there was a FR in Flyspray, but I can't find it though. Or maybe it was discussed in ML. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
On 3/7/07, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Hi,
I am not sure if this is a bug or missing feature; so I sent this to the ml first.
Sometime a package depends on a "meta" package which is provided by more than one packages. For example "libgl" or "smtp-server". At the moment pacman just installs the first package it founds which is the wrong decision for most cases.
Right, this is the current way pacman2 does it. It's harder to do and I think it's either in a TODO in the code, or on my TODO.aaron list. Not sure, but it's planned.
2007/3/7, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:
On 3/7/07, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Hi,
I am not sure if this is a bug or missing feature; so I sent this to the ml first.
Sometime a package depends on a "meta" package which is provided by more than one packages. For example "libgl" or "smtp-server". At the moment pacman just installs the first package it founds which is the wrong decision for most cases.
Right, this is the current way pacman2 does it. It's harder to do and I think it's either in a TODO in the code, or on my TODO.aaron list. Not sure, but it's planned.
Yep, I surely remember the discussion about this somewhere but neither Flyspray nor Gmail are able to find it... doh... I guess with --noconfirm we'll get old behavour anyway. We might add some option for pacman.conf though, like "Alias web-server=lighttpd" but it will be useful only for first install, so I dunno if it worth it.. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
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Aaron Griffin
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Pierre Schmitz
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Roman Kyrylych