Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (420 mails)

["Gabriel ." <gabriel.sgt@xxxxxxxxx>]

2007/10/4, Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx>:
> The most important feature for download and install is that you can operate
> under very restricted situations, e.g. disk and memory requirements.
>
> I agree that on a running system, this is not the most effective approach.
> What needs to be determined is to figure out how much space you can spare to
> download the packages and this is not very easy to do. Just imagine a package
> that will need to create a big new file in its post-install script (think
> initrd for a new kernel). You can hardly predict, only to use heuristics.
>

I agree, but it could be an option (where the user configures the
repos) to choose what method will be used.

There's no need to remove the actual behavior, but adding a new one an
let the user select which want to use.

Best regards.
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