[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add interactive provider selection

[Allan McRae]

On 05/11/10 07:51, Xavier Chantry wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>> On 20/10/10 05:10, Xavier Chantry wrote:
>>>
>>> If there are multiple providers in one db, pacman used to just stop at
>>> the first one (both during dependency resolution or for pacman -S
>>> 'provision' which uses the same code).
>>>
>>
>> I like the idea, but does this not work cross repos?
>>
>
> That's indeed what I tried to describe above.
> I hesitated on this point, but finally I thought this behavior was
> more consistent with normal target (literal) lookup or group members
> lookup in the db. It's always the first repo that has the priority and
> others are ignored.
>
> It should not be hard to change the behavior of _alpm_resolvedep though.
>

I think that if we are providing a selection dialog for provides then it 
should present packages from all repos to choose from.  Otherwise it 
seems a half feature to me.

Allan