On Jan 24, 2005, Jeff Johnson <n3npq@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Meanwhile, rpm -e becomes possible for end-users, albeit at the > expense of flip-flop through anaconda. > That appears to be progress forward. IMHO what would be make this undoubtedly forward progress would be some means to adorn the graph arrow with an additional annotation that would aid the depsolver in figuring out whether to bring in the additional package, to avoid the very flip-flop that many might regard as a regression. The annotation I have in mind would go like `if upgrading from V-R <= v-r' (where v-r is presumed to be less than the current package V-R), then bring in the additional dependency. This addresses the issue of updates/upgrades bringing in new functionality, but not forcing them onto the user that chose to live without the new functionality after the upgrade that introduced it. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
