On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 19:09 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:55:47PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > (c) Download and install it for you. > > You're right, but there's still one problem: > It breaks first and *then* fixes it. > By the time it's broken, your old network card no longer > works and you can't connect to an apt repository to fix it. > > Doesn't this put network card source packages in a > special category? I mentioned this in my bug report. > > m-a should see if it's going to break before it breaks > > Now you're going to say: "keep around old packages in > case it breaks, what are you stupid? it's the kernel! > keep backups" > > and I'll say: you knew before-hand it was going to > break, why'd you break it? > > The temporary apt-repository is the only reliable > solution. m-a is solving a problem I don't have.
Fine then, don't use it. It'll pull the deps before it install the modules and unloads them and re-loads them. If you want to keep shooting self in foot please do so quietly. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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