Am 24.01.2014 15:55, schrieb Ralf Corsepius:
> On 01/24/2014 01:39 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> Even if we can do it on the mirrors, we have no way to 'recall' a
>>> package from systems where it's already been installed (of course in the
>>> current case that wouldn't have worked anyway, but we're discussing the
>>> generic case here).
>>
>> Crazy idea of the day: Maybe our update tools should default to distro-sync
>> rather than update?
> No, for 2 reasons:
> 
> a) This would blow away all installed packages, which aren't available in 
> permanently enabled repos

that is not true, try it out

otherwise some packages would be not installed on my machines after a 
dist-upgrade
namely the ones never came from any repo and installed locally

> Most common such case is having selectively installed packages from 
> updates-testing, because users are facing
> problems with these packages' nominal versions

*that* is the reason not to do so because it would downgrade anything updated
explicitly from updates-testing,kde-testing,koji which would be a bad default

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