Re: Proposal for a new package relationship option
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 07:18:16PM -0800, ferret@phonewave.net wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> It's not the package managers job. End of my opinion.
But I can see the need to take into consideration the package manager's
voluntary input as to what configurations would be a bad idea. I can also
see the point in giving the package mamager a conduit for said input.
> Marcus
>
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