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Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System



Op Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:26:02 +0430
schreef Eliad Bagherzadegan <eliad.bagherzadegan@gmail.com>:

> 2. The ability to ban certain packages and (possibly) there dependent
> packages. So that they wouldn't show up in the package manager at all.

You can do something like this using apt pinning. If you assign a
negative priority to a package, it will still be listed but apt will
refuse to install it.

For example, with the following stanza apt will refuse to install
libfoo:
  Package: libfoo
  Pin: version *
  Pin-Priority: -1

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