Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (227 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:58:18PM +0200, Martin Vidner wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:18:23PM +0200, Michael Matz wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
> > > - Use the solver, and during parsing inject something like
> > > provides:fix(bugzilla:23444) when filling the repodata. Then applications
> > > could inject a requires in the solver fix(bugzilla:23444) and just solve. 
> > > I
> > > dont't know the consequences of this.
> >
> > I don't think this would be a good idea.
>
> Why? Because of flooding the solver with unnecessary data? We do that all the
> time with autoprovides don't we? 

I'm also against it because I think the user should be able to
read the contraindications and description of the patch. So
magically installing some patch doesn't sound like the way to go.

M.
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