On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Jonathan C. Sitte wrote: > Michael Schwendt wrote: > | Not aiming at a complete list, but gaim, gstreamer, gthumb, nmap, > | sylpheed, yum, probably a few more. There are users who refuse to use a > | repository when it updates packages included within the core distribution. > > I would be one of those users. Then you would be one of those users that would beg for a decent pinning/filtering mechanism in yum, apt or up2date. Like I do. apt has a pinning/filtering mechanism, but it is very difficult to use and doesn't allow everything that makes sense. pinning/filtering could also be used for upgrading a distribution without relying on increased epoch/version/release numbers. -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
