Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (148 mails)

[Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx>]

Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> Well, it should IMHO. Since it helps the solver to decide whats a
> 'best' package is:
>
> repository openSUSE with priority 99 containing package foo-0.9-stable
> repository Experimental with priority 50 containing package foo-1.1-unstable
>
> An innocent user requesting the installation of 'foo' should get
> foo-0.9, since its probably the 'best' from a distribution and
> maintenance/support perspective.
>
> An experienced user might want to change priorities, willing to take
> the risk of a 'leading edge' version of 'foo'.
>
>
> From my POV, this is the whole point of having repository priorities.
>
>
> Klaus
>   

Of course, we did not add support in libzypp API just to decorate the 
header file, but this has to be implemented as a solver policy and that 
code is missing, and we have enough homework for the rest of the week ;-)

Duncan

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