On 06/15/2018 01:55 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
For instance, I set Packman to have a lower priority number, which can be anything, for example, 98.
Basically it means: if there is a package that is both offered in default OSS repo and packman, choose the packman one.
Priority became so obtuse, that pacman goes out of its way to never have a package of the same exact name as the OSS one. It will always have different appendages, usually higher, so once you select the pacman one you will never fall back accidentally. You have to try. Then there is this whole concept of Vendor Changes, and allowing or disallowing those. Not to mention that whole bit about a HIGHER Priority being a LOWER number. Gaaaa! I've abandoned the use of priorities. I prevent Vendor Changes except when I EXPLICITLY request it. At all other times Allow Vendor Changes option in YAST is switched OFF. AND YES, I use YAST where I can see exactly what is going to be done, without dry runs, and wading through a man page 4 reams long. Things like Zypper with 4000 options, some totally surprising and UN-intuitive, really aren't easy for anything except repetitive by-rote tasks. I avoid it where ever possible. I really suck at typing in long strings of fuzzy numbers and letters to specify a package. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done.