[packagekit] exclude some upgrades
David Zeuthen
david at fubar.dk
Mon Nov 12 12:56:58 PST 2007
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 20:44 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > > Or, you know, go and punk the providers of the packages
> > > > that block. If you're feeling more cracktastic including a 'file a bug'
> > > > button that automagically files a bug.
> > >
> > > That really doesn't scale. Can you imagine closing 4500+ bugs of
> > > "yesterdays rawhide didn't depsolve"?
> >
> > I sure can! Seriously, it's something you'd want to turn off in e.g.
> > Rawhide but I think it could be useful in stable Fedora. For RHEL, I'd
> > probably turn it off; it's more of a community distro feature. YMMV.
>
> I don't think creating a bug is a good idea; redirecting a user to a
> community maintained wiki page might be best.
Maybe. I was sorta half-kidding when proposing it but thinking more and
more about it also in the context of general distro QA.. it actually
starts making more and more sense to me.
David
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