[Mageia-dev] Proposed Feature:Backports_update_applet

Fri Jun 15 04:55:09 CEST 2012

andre999 wrote:
+
+> blind Pete a écrit :
+>> andre999 wrote:
+>>
+>>    
+>>> blind Pete a écrit :
+>>>      
+>>>> Samuel Verschelde wrote:
+>>>>
+>>>>
+>>>>        
+> 
+[snip]
+>>> - Functioning as an update, it would only replace already installed
+>>> backports, once the tools are appropriately adjusted.
+>>>      
+>> There are a couple of ways to do that.  The simplest that I can think
+>> of is to split "backports" into "backports" and "backports update".
+>> Allow cherry picking from "backports" and apply "backports update"
+>> automatically.
+>>    
+> 
+> I was thinking of cases where the user chooses to "update" their
+> system.  New versions of backports already installed would be presented
+> as updates, along with those from the update repos.
+> Just as we don't have any update-update repos, it wouldn't make sense to
+> have backport-update repos either.
+[snip]
+
+It depends on how you look at it.  
+
+If you consider non-free, tainted, and backport to be optional 
+and any update package to be highly recommended if and only if 
+the corresponding package is already installed.  Then is does 
+not matter if the old package is a tainted.rpm, nonfree.rpm, 
+bp.rpm, or an ordinary rpm.  Just one way to look at it, not 
+the only way.  
+
+
+-- 
+blind Pete
+Sig goes here...  
+
+