Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:11:43PM +0200, Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> was heard to say:
> - I would like to be able to declare "favorites" among packages, to
>   guide conflict resolution.

  I was actually working on this a few weeks ago but I got sidetracked
by the fact that the GTK+ interface was starting to become interesting
to hack on...

  I was looking at something like this:

    Aptitude::Resolver::Hints {
      // To reject a package completely, like pressing "r" on
      // all its versions:
      "reject dselect";

      // To reject a particular version, like pressing "r" on it:
      "reject foopackage=1.0.0.bad-version-number";

      // To always take a package over alternatives:
      "accept aptitude-doc-cs";

      // To always take a particular package version over alternatives:
      "accept linux-2.6/etch";

      // We can use patterns too.  Maybe we want to prefer German docs:
      "accept ?name(.*-doc-de)";

      // Weights can be adjusted, too.  Give a bonus to emacs and
      // a penalty to vi:
      "+100 ?name(^emacs)";
      "-100 ?name(^vi)";
    };

  Daniel