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Re: Welcoming Brian Dessent as setup maintainer


Max Bowsher wrote:

> It is not so much the level of bugginess - "snapshots" should communicate
> that just fine.
> 
> Rather, it is the fact that that binary isn't "2.494", it is "2.494 plus
> modifications".

Ah, right.  Well, I could commit the depends-checker now, if you'd
like.  It's more or less ready.  But there are still a couple of rough
edges.  For example if you select a package to be uninstalled, and the
depends checker overrides that, it will do a reinstall of that package
rather than just doing nothing (i.e. it's already installed, no need to
reinstall.)  Also, it doesn't catch the case where you deselect a
package in 'Base' that doesn't necessarily have any dependencies.  I
suppose in theory there's nothing wrong with that but I have always
taken 'base' as 100% required always. 

Brian


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