Re: Bug#475243: 100% successful install on Fujitsu 2110 lifebook
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Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:
> On Thursday 10 April 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:
>> > On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Joey Hess wrote:
>> >> Also, when apt-install is fixed to complain about queued items that
>> >> fail to install, won't it start complaining about acpi if it's not on
>> >> the netinst?
>> >
>> > I have a half-finished patch that does that, but it depends on how
>> > apt-install is called. It will only complain about packages that were
>> > queued with 'apt-install -r'.
>>
>> I thought about Joey's comment and I believe that every call to
>> apt-install should mean that a package is required. So the package
>> will be installed in all installation methods. This makes the same
>> installation result on all available methods them.
>
> I assume that this means you have done a complete inventory of all cases
> (and for all architectures) where we call apt-update and whether or not the
> package really is required?
>
> If not, then this is a completely empty statement that I'll happily ignore.
I think that this kind of answer adds nothing to the thread and I do
believe we don't need to go throught all the internals right now but
talk about the apt-install concept and what it represents for the
enduser. I'll focus on the discussion and it's up to you to ignore it
or not. I hope other people doesn't ignore it.
A careful look and testing would be required for sure but I doubt this
is the best time to look into it before we get some agreement on this
discussion.
Currently apt-install usage differs from this concept and I'm aware of
it; is this what is more logical to enduser?
I think that different installation methods shouldn't have different
final results and this looks logical to me. For this to be done, the
only way I see is if all apt-install calls are "required to be
satisfied".
What use cases do you see that apt-install calls should be used as
"non-required" action?
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