Re: Package System Gripes (Re: (no subject))

|--==> "APA" == Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: APA> I consider this BrokenAsDesigned True. APA> Can't we do anything to protect the user from this highly APA> surprising and misleading experiece? Use a partial index in the pre-release directory so that _only_ what's in the directory is in the index. The tricky part will be coming up with a safe way to generate the partial index (actually, that's the easy part), and a way to merge it into the main index file when those packages come out of pre-release. Mind you, this will cause more confusion for the user. Say, for example, there are 3 packages in pre-release. Said user updates her packages from one of the pre-release sites, the packages buffer from `pui-list-packages' will _only_ show those 3 packages, and will continue to show only those 3 packages until she updates from one of the main package sites (non-pre-release). Unless... Instead of replacing the user's index file we just merge in the changes. I wonder how hard that would be to implement safely? APA> * The fact that a vanilla XEmacs installation can't fetch packages APA> is probably competing for first place :-) One of these days I'll get around to finishing off the workspace I have here that "fixes" that. :-P -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: A94B3003>---| | XEmacs - The only _______ you'll ever need. | | Fill in the blank, yes, it's THAT good! | |------------------------------&lt;sryoungs(a)bigpond.net.au&gt;---|