One option smart needs to conquer the world

[Neal Becker]

On Wednesday 22 February 2006 11:18 am, Richard Hendershot wrote:
> I've used Smart to downgrade and rectify conflicts a LOT.  I've never
> had a bit of trouble.  I'm running FC4 with nrpms, at, and several other
> repositories.  YMMV, but I'd *hate* to see less weight given to Smart's
> ability to do these things!
>
> -rsh

I'm not saying that downgrade is a bad thing.  I'm saying there are a bunch of 
people who do think that, and if we give them the option, maybe they'd be 
happy.  I'm not saying change the default behavior.  If the option is 
specified in such a manner that a cli interface could switch it, then a 
fedora packager could switch it off as part of his install script.


>
> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 11:02 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> > When I talk about smart on fedora lists, there is a lot of resistance to
> > the idea of a package system that would automatically downgrade packages.
> >  This, they say, is not safe.
> >
> > What about a configuration option to prevent downgrading, or only allow
> > it by manual override?  That should satisfy everyone.