Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (78 mails)

[Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@xxxxxxx>]

* Stefan Hundhammer <sh@xxxxxxx> [Nov 07. 2007 11:41]:
> On Wednesday 07 November 2007 10:52, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> > - Policy layer
> >   Solving package dependencies consists of clearly defined dependency
> >   semantics and assumptions not expressable by dependencies.
> >   Those assumptions are commonly referred to as 'policies'.
> >   Future versions of libzypp must expose these policies, so an
> >   application or system administrator (system wide policies) can
> >   change them.
>
> Please keep in mind that this will have to be handled by the application 
> layer. This is nothing the UI layer will ever want to be concerned with.

Actually, its a layer separate from application.

UIs for advanced users might expose 'policy knobs' for tuning, though.


Klaus
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