Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (227 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 07:07:45PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Wednesday 2008-04-16 12:46, Michael Andres wrote:
> > > > While I also would have preferred lower numbers for lower priorities 
> > > > there's no wrong or right involved here.  Both directions make sense, and 
> > > > it's a matter of taste what to prefer.
> > >
> > > Right, and since people rather used smart than yum, it should
> > > really be the former's way.
> >
> > The restriction [1..99] is artificial. The priority is stored in the
> > .repo file. It was requested to support what YUM uses.
> >
> > Internally the priority found in a .repo is mapped to [-99..-1] within the
> > full integer range of possible priorities.
> >
> >
> > We could as well use some 'smartlikeprio=' instead of 'priority='
> > and allow the full range of priorities.
>
> More like 'priority=' and 'yumpriority='.

The problem is that the .repo file is YUM syntax. It would be very
confusing if everything else looks like yum, but the priority
behaves different.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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