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Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System



Hello,

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:44:43 +0200
Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org> wrote:

> >> You can do something like this using apt pinning. If you assign a
> >> negative priority to a package, it will still be listed but apt
> >> will refuse to install it.
> >
> >> For example, with the following stanza apt will refuse to install
> >> libfoo:
> >>   Package: libfoo
> >>   Pin: version *
> >>   Pin-Priority: -1
> >
> > Possibly, there should be some kind of automagical interface for
> > this, so one can type apt-... ... libfoo and get that stanza
> > generated?
> 
> It's actually very easy to write such a tool:

Yes, but when you already know how to do that :) Before that, you need
to R the M anyway.

-- 
WBR, Andrew

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