On Jo, 03 iul 14, 00:24:44, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > You have not yet explained why apt pinning is not enough. > > I'd appreciate an explanation too. I've inserted in my apt/preferences > file the incantation given by Vitali F. (to whom thanks) at the very > beginning of this thread, and it appears to have the requested effect. > > I've looked through the whole thread, and I can see the following reasons: > > - conflicting packages are honoured by dpkg, unlike pinning; Which doesn't bring any real additional benefits, unless you want to prevent yourself from ever doing 'dpkg -i systemd*.deb'. > - a package can conflict with multiple packages, while you need > multiple pinning entries; Pinning supports blobs and regexes, so it should be quite easy to pin a number of related packages with just one or few patterns. In case of systemd this is not even necessary, because the other related packages have Depends: systemd, and apt will refuse to install those as well. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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