Re: Proposal for a new package relationship option
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 04:02:15PM -0700, John Galt wrote:
> 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.
You are entitled to your opinion. In this case, you are seeing more than me.
Marcus
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