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Re: Auto install code



Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> Speaking of keywords, I still haven't been able to get an OK on this
> proposal, it looks like we will not have this information avail by the
> time we release.. What should we do?

Since we probably won't be releasing deity until Debian 2.1 or so, we
still have time to lobby the dpkg folks.

> > I understand now.  That makes sense.  But tell me, if these other packages
> > were downgraded, would libc6 be uninstalled?  Perhaps we should have a
> > mechanism for people to see why a package was installed, or upgraded?  I
> > suspect that this won't be too difficult, as this info should already be
> > available for the auto-remove mechanism.
> 
> Yes, that is the 'auto' mechanism we talked about. As for seeing how/why,
> how should that be presented to the user?

Good.

Probably another tab in the tabbed window.

Behan

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