Re: Proposal for a new package relationship option
Hmmmm. After thinking about it for a while..
A 'discourages' relationship would be best used for one package to say
"Having this other package isn't the best idea" to the package manager.
The 'task-secure-system' IMO is the best example for such. And IMO the
idea someone posted earlier about reccomending an 'empty' package that
would conflict with the package otherwise being discouraged is a bit of an
ugly hack.
Can the same package manager behaviour be performed without the
'discourages' relationship or the conflicting 'empty' packages?
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:47:46AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > That sounds suspisciously like an opinion to me. If pkg A and
> > B can exist on the same machine, and can be used by different users
> > simultaneously, or by the same user sequentially, or even by the same
> > suer simulataneously with a little magic, but fail to work without
> > that magic; you thik this is a bug?
>
> To me not[1], but it doesn't sound as if those packages should discourage each
> other, which is exactly my point.
>
> Thanks,
> Marcus
>
> [1] I think that if something bad happens if both are used simultaneously
> in the default setup, it would be useful to have this fixed if feasible, for
> example by locking of the precious data.
>
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