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On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:13:14 -0500 Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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| RESTRICT="fetch" is between the package, the manager, and the user (as |
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| someone has to fetch the files). |
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Except that the user shouldn't have to care about it then either. The |
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user need only care when a package requires manually downloaded files. |
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In particular, if the files are already fetched, then the value of |
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RESTRICT is irrelevant to the end user. |
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Control over packages requiring manual intervention is good (packages |
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not requiring intervention is, of course, an awful lot better). This |
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proposal doesn't seem to be a very good way of getting it, however. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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