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Re: gnome-apt status wrt UI document



Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> For all 2200 packages? That's not going to work. A popup menu selecting
> the version for each package is the way to go. 

You misunderstood me. I meant a smallpopup beneath the curses / besides
the package version when the user marks a single package for install
or upgrade.

> And remember we should have support for pinning a package to always use
> 'HAMM' or somesuch. In fact this entire thing will end up being fairly
> complex.

Hmm, a `glue' option? We can do this using a simple boolean flag I think:
if you mark a package as `glued' it will only be upgraded to a packaged
that comes from the same distribution, as found in the Release-file.

Wichert.

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