Re: dpkg bugs?

[Behan Webster <behanw@verisim.com>]

I'm sorry it took so long to reply to this.

Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 
>         Looking at Behan's page about deity user interfaces, I notice
>  that the deity user interface already offers information about
>  dependencies. I suggest that for deletions/downgrades, we also list
>  packages that would be affected (just as we display packages that
>  would have to be installed in order to install a new package X.

This would probably be a good idea yes.  I'll add it.

>         Do we need to interweave deletions with installations when we
>  order events in deity? like
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>         uninstall some requested package
>         [...]
>         uninstall some requested package
>         uninstall sendmail
>         install smail
>         configure smail
>         uninstall some requested package
>         install package XXX
>         install package YYY
>         [...]
>         configure package XXX
>         configure package YYY
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

This might indeed need to be done.  I have no idea how it would be
accomplished though.

Thanks,

Behan

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