On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, tomas pospisek wrote: > On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Ben Burton wrote: > > > Hi. I do have one strong concern with experimental which may be > > ill-founded, > > I'm not sure. It seems there are lots of inexperienced users out there > > wanting to use KDE3 with debian, and I'm worried we'll have people just <...> > > My understanding is that they'll want to use pinning, but I'm not sure how > > much of a meal that will be to explain (having never needed to use it before > > myself). > > Considering, that there are regulary emails to the list of people who do > install the various KDE>3 packages but obviously have their biggest > troubles handling dpkg, apt, dselect or aptitude your concerns are not > unfunded. On the other hand, what would it change from the current > disorder?
How about going one step further and create software to handle the mechanics of pinning. install-pin, and maybe even update-pin, sound like commands that are bound to come along sooner or later... Benefits: - developers get better control over what is installed - users can specify what they want, instead of how it should be done - a higher level interface will allow standardizing of the ways pinning is used - Bruce
