[Mageia-dev] bug 2317 revisited: --update option should behave like --search-media

Thu Jun 21 17:40:51 CEST 2012

On 21 June 2012 17:36, AL13N <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
+>> A. fetch dependencies only from enabled release/update repositories
+>> Problems:
+>>  - patch doesn't exist yet and code complexity is alot higher
+>>  - if backports are enabled, a dependency fetched from release could
+>> conflict with other installed (from backports or other). thus the update
+>> would fail.
+>>
+>> Solutions for this:
+>>  - this is not cleanly solvable, we would have to remove the backport.
+> [...]
+>
+> In this thread at the moment, I see mostly people having (personal
+> preference) problems with how i would solve this bug.
+>
+> while they aren't less important, what I would rather see in this thread
+> is alternative solutions, or how the problem with A can be solved if it
+> happens.
+>
+> even if both A and B are regarded as bad, I'd even prefer people to say
+> that B is the lesser evil.
+>
+> complaining on how B is not good for you, doesn't get us anywhere with
+> this bug.
+>
+> So please, give alternative solutions or state how A is perfectly viable.
+
+You're inversing the roles :-)
+You cannot knowly break things just b/c of one need (which btw was
+managed back @mdv).
+You're trading one infrastruture enhancement for:
+- several new usability issues:
+  o more memory
+  o slower to compute updates
+- breaking people installation by blindly installing all backports along updates
+  if they're ever enabled.
+- ...
+