On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 01:58:09AM +0100, Bj?rn Stenberg wrote: > > There it claims: "Updating ginac makes 1 packages uninstallable on alpha: > > ginac". Huh?!? Now it's talking about uninstallable source packages!?! > Yeah, that's a feature. Well, you should be saying "...makes binary packages from 1 source(s) uninstallable on alpha, namely: ginac". It's not meaningful to talk about uninstallable source packages, and what you've got seems especially likely to be confusing if a source package builds multiple binary packages including one with the same name as the source package. > The list of uninstallable packages can grow very long when all > binaries are listed, making it hard to see which source packages are > having problems. Someone asked me to filter the list and just show the > source packages, so that's what the script currently does. You could also consider saying: makes the following packages uninstallable: foo, bar, baz, (and 5 other packages from metavar source package), blah, ... Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Linux.conf.au 2004 -- Because we could. http://conf.linux.org.au/ -- Jan 12-17, 2004
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