Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal (was: yes i am alive ;)
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, tomas pospisek wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Ben Burton wrote:
>
> > Hi. I do have one strong concern with experimental which may be ill-founded,
> > I'm not sure. It seems there are lots of inexperienced users out there
> > wanting to use KDE3 with debian, and I'm worried we'll have people just
<...>
> > My understanding is that they'll want to use pinning, but I'm not sure how
> > much of a meal that will be to explain (having never needed to use it before
> > myself).
>
> Considering, that there are regulary emails to the list of people who do
> install the various KDE>3 packages but obviously have their biggest
> troubles handling dpkg, apt, dselect or aptitude your concerns are not
> unfunded. On the other hand, what would it change from the current
> disorder?
How about going one step further and create software to handle the
mechanics of pinning. install-pin, and maybe even update-pin, sound
like commands that are bound to come along sooner or later...
Benefits:
- developers get better control over what is installed
- users can specify what they want, instead of how it should be done
- a higher level interface will allow standardizing of the ways
pinning is used
- Bruce
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