[Bug 548693] New: zypper: The following package is going to be REMOVED add alternatives for decision support
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548693 Summary: zypper: The following package is going to be REMOVED add alternatives for decision support Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: RC 1 Platform: x86 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.2 Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: libzypp AssignedTo: zypp-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: casualprogrammer@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090909 SUSE/3.5.3-3.2 Firefox/3.5.3 Quite often when executing zypper dup, the user is presented with a list of actions to be taken, among them "The following package is going to be REMOVED". As this may easily be overlooked, as well as putting the user between a rock and a hard place ( Do I upgrade and loose my favorite application, or do I skip the upgrade and stick with some problems I don't like ), I suggest adding a dialog presenting alternatives to choose from. Just now it happened to me with libxine1-codecs, issuing a zypper up doesn't help much here. It can be solved manually by answering no, adding a loch to the package(s) in question and rerunning zypper dup. Now it offers various solutions to choose from as expected. Obviously the lock has to be removed after the operation for cleanup. The same behavior could be arrived at by adding some functionality, where zypper treats packages to be removed, as though they were locked. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Michael Andres
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Ján Kupec
Continue? [Y/n/?] +foo to install/keep foo; - to remove/keep-not-installed (of course the help under '?' would list these options). Apt has something similar IIRC.
How would this be done BTW? Just by marking the solvable/selectable for install, as usually and running the solver again? I guess no problem for in/rm/patch, but would that work also with up/dup/verify? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #3 from Ján Kupec
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