Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (56 mails)

["Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > On 12/12/2007 at 6:05 PM, Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Dominique Leuenberger <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [Dec 12. 2007 
> 14:04]:
> > zypper shell
> > zypper> in pkgB
>
> > in this case, zypper resolves the dependencies and offers to install
> > pkgA-0.1-1
>
> > Why doesn't it suggest now also to install pkgA-0.2-1 together with
> > libpkgA0-0.2-1? Wouldn't that case be the logical one? 
>
> Actually, thats a policy decision, not a dependency decision.
> (And one of the reasons we want to make policies configurable in 11.0)
>
> One of the current solver policies is 'minimize the transaction': the
> fewer package installs/upgrades/removals the better.
>
> Thats why pkgA-0.1-1 is preferred over pkgA-0.2 + libpkgA.

Klaus,

Thanks for this clarification... Makes sense after reading it. It's just a bit 
surprising that it bring s you to a system where, just after installing, you're 
offered to update to the latest version, if you check the system. And the 
update even works. 

Dominique

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