Re: Priority & metainfo

[Gustavo Niemeyer <niemeyer conectiva com>]

> The packager/distribution provides a lookaside (key,value) file (or other
> local storage) to use an already resident tag (i.e. Name:) with a
> value (i.e. Priority:) when queried. That way the priorities of all
> the packages in a distro can be adjusted, installed, upgreaded etc without
> having to rebuild all the packages to get a new Priority: instantiated.
[...]

Oh, I see. That's not exactly what I had in mind. Indeed, that's exactly
how apt-rpm works right now: there's a file named /etc/apt/rpmpriorities
with that information. Unfortunately, that doesn't give a chance for
third party packagers to provide a priority for their supported packages.

OTOH, if I had to choose between that or nothing, I'd be glad if you
provided such functionality. That would give rpm a chance to actually
show that information in an i.e. rpm -qi, and also.. some kind of
expertise could be added to avoid dumb users removing their
kernel/essential packages.

> Does that clarify?

No doubts. Thank you.

-- 
Gustavo Niemeyer

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