[packagekit] PackageKit & Debian, Was: External dependencies, DeviceKit-power and GNOME Power Manager

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mercredi 26 novembre 2008 à 13:48 +0000, Richard Hughes a écrit :
> > Bevan has installed a custom kernel image from the web to support some
> > specific hardware, when udev gets upgraded in a way that will make this
> > kernel fail.
> 
> I'm not sure this is a good example. It shouldn't be possible to
> introduce failures like this with good depend check on the the package.

Most of the time, this is definitely avoided this way, but it’s not
always the case, especially for the kernel. You can install several
kernels at once, and you need to upgrade things like udev without
removing the running kernel, even if they are incompatible.

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