Subject: RE: Setup as recommended reading
From: "Robert Collins" <[email-masked]>
To: "Brian Gallew" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 22:20:17 +1000

That's a workaround that requires ~ the same effort as storing all the
package data. 

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Gallew [mailto:[email-masked]] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 10:02 PM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: [email-masked]; [email-masked]
> Subject: RE: Setup as recommended reading
> 
> 
> Robert Collins said:
> > There is an implicit conflict there with setup, because 
> setup doesn't 
> > know what was available before - it only knows version for what is 
> > installed. That will change in the future.
> 
> How about this:  Allow packages to be marked "never install"? 
>  Then setup can display all of the udpated or new packages, 
> yet give the user an easy way to control what (s)he has to look at?
> 
> 

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