Breaking deps deliberately

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed May 13 16:22:25 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 10:55 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> I'm not sure why you think we need entirely separate repos for this kind 
> of action. PackageKit is aware of update levels. Bug fix, security fix, 
> or regular feature update. You could add functionality to PackageKit 
> that allows you default the type of updates you want instead of all 
> updates. Right now you can just manually uncheck the updates you do not 
> want, so if they don't have a red icon next to them. In fact, I think 
> the notification window you get that says "Security Updates only" would 
> get you on your way.

The problem here is that packages get multiple updates.  Lets say update
1 is non security.  Update 2 is security.  Updates 3 and 4 are non
security.  User Bob does a fresh install, and in order to get the
security update, he has to update to update 4, which has 3 non security
updates rolled into it.  He might as well just update everything.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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