Bug#207400: Notes
[Is apt bug chatter no longer relayed to deity@l.d.o? Or should that CC:
be dropped?]
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:40:23PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
(apt-pkg changes)
>
> - IsCritical->IsImportant... The Critical/Important differentiation
> never seems to have panned out. The distinction was ment to allow a
> policy routine to manage things like suggests. If connectiva says
> removing it makes things much faster then might as well, but remove
> _all_ traces of IsImportant.
That's rather "IsImportantDep", isn't it?
I'm not all too familiar with the distinction between these two, but
gnome-apt uses the latter rather than IsCritical. What _is_ the
difference?
It's probably more of a problem for aptitude. Downloading it's source and
grepping reveals that it frequently uses both, and ISTR aptitude having
more complete support for policies than any other apt frontend (dselect
left aside, but it doesn't use apt-pkg)
Downloading and grepping some more: synaptic appears to use only
IsImportantDep, the (now obsolete) stormpkg uses both, deity (which isn't
in the archive anymore but it's maintainer has expressed to be still
interested in getting it back in sometime) uses only IsImportantDep.
Regards,
Filip
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