Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 10:42:21 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: clemens fischer <ino-qc@spotteswoode.de.eu.org> Cc: Yury Tarasievich <grog@grsu.by>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making pkg_XXX tools smarter about file types... Message-ID: <3E46A10D.6090409@acm.org> References: <3E42C148.4050807@acm.org> <3E440393.3080506@grsu.by> <smuxs891.fsf@ID-23066.news.dfncis.de>
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clemens fischer wrote: > Yury Tarasievich <grog@grsu.by>: >>I'd like to see in dependencies not only like "was built with >>-1.9_2abc, so wants it", but also something like -1.5+ (obviously >>1.5.0 and newer), -* (any version will do). > > ... sometimes newer versions aren't backwards > compatible, which you can't know back in the past. A better approach might be to simply fob it off on the user, i.e., # pkg_install foo-1.5 Warning: foo-1.5 requires bar-2.3, you have bar-1.7 installed. Proceed? [Y/n] Eventually, someone should teach pkg_install about fetch, so it could offer the option of downloading and installing the dependency. IIRC, Debian's package system handled this pretty elegantly---it even upgraded installed packages automatically---although their curses-based UI was ... erm .... "quirky." ;-) Tim Kientzle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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