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Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System



Hello,

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:25:29 +0200
Peter De Wachter <pdewacht@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

Possibly, there should be some kind of automagical interface for this,
so one can type apt-... ... libfoo and get that stanza generated?

-- 
WBR, Andrew

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