Using smart

[Mikus Grinbergs]

Have a situation with SuSE 10.0 where the behavior of
'apt-get' is more to my liking.  It has "held back" certain
GNOME-related package upgrades because that would involve
_downgrading_ certain other packages - and I accept that.

But 'smart --gui' (when I click on 'Upgrade all packages')
gives me a 'Change summary list' that *includes* what it
wants to downgrade.  The best I can do is tell it to mark
all those packages;  then I go into the main listing with
'Hide all unmarked' -- and manually try to 'Keep' (i.e.,
unmark) those packages I DON'T WANT DOWNGRADED.


What I want for today in regard to individual packages marked
'downgrade' is the option to "keep back" the SPECIFIC LEVELS
of newer packages that specify incompatible dependencies;
BUT to have the option tomorrow (when FUTURE LEVELS of those
creating-conflict packages arrive, hopefully having corrected
their dependencies) to "accept" upgraded packages whose today
versions I'm skipping.


The RMB-on-package GUI for 'Priority' only lets me specify
preference by channel, NOT by package level.  And the generic
"Edit Priorities" window *forces* me to TYPE in lots of info
(rather than letting me select info by clicking).

HOW ought I specify to 'smart --gui' (so I can use
'Upgrade all packages') that there is a SPECIFIC LEVEL
of a newer package that I DON'T want to upgrade to ?


Thanks,  mikus