Re: [Patch] Keep Button

["Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>]

Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 08:04, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Robert Collins wrote:
>>> Ah. Well seems to me this is the appropriate place to put it, it's
>>> more flexible as a category manipulator than a trust level.
>>
>> But far less visible to new users.
>>
>>> And less complex to code.
>>
>> Really... ? :-)
>
> Really. What youve put below has several problems.
>
> 1) The prev trust level hasn't been removed as a group decision. You
> need to keep that for now at least.

I'm confident it will be shortly.

> 2) You are not checking requirements for packages, so if the user
> removes <foo> they will be left with a broken install.

Um? I'm just resetting all packages to what is installed already.
Admittedly, it won't *fix* an install if the user has already manually
broken dependencies, but I don't understand how it can break an install.

Max.