Re: Appropriate warning when removing important package
Jeremy Leibs <leibs@willowgarage.com> writes:
> My initial workaround was to just add "Essential: yes" to the
> ros-conficts control file so that now users get a much more serious
> warning when they try to install a package that conflicts with it.
> However, this feels like a misuse of "essential."
> Is there a preferred way to present an appropriate warning to people
> when a particularly important package is about to be removed?
If I were you, I'd use Essential. That's basically what it's for, and in
this sort of situation for a custom package for a local environment, I
think it would create the impact you want with the least customization to
Debian required.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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