Re: heh just want to report on grab functionality

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 03:59:31PM -0400, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> Good Morning!

Good evening now... 8^)

> I've been having some really good luck with grab 1.0.3
> i just did a full install of all the gnome2 pieces last night from the
> rawhide repository.  Grab did the dependancy checking pretty well...it
> wasnt perfect becuase of some package conflicts between gnome 1.4 and
> gnome2 that aren't so obvious...basically some packages got renamed and
> some functionality was split...so some older packages have to be removed
> by hand first so the new packages with new names can be installed
> properly.  Overall I'd say grab got 80 to 90 percent of the dependancies
> correct on its own....it was only when there were weirdo orphaned
> packages that did correspond to an update.

I am glad to hear that GRAB is doing pretty well on the dep stuff. I would
like to see it hit 95-100% of the deps for new installs. Upgrades as you know
are much more complicated because of packages going obsolete, and changing
the provides capabilities.

> Maybe grab needs to add an ability for an option to uninstall some
> orphaned packages in weird circumstances when packagenames change or
> functionality is split into a new second package thus creating a file
> conflict.

Hrmm... How would it know if the package was orphaned?

g
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