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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au>
Cc: 29255@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29255: "Profile contains conflicting entries" could be more helpful
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 14:59:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmk8hq6v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmk98yeq.fsf@sturm.com.au> (Ben Sturmfels's message of "Sat, 11 Nov 2017 11:14:05 +1100")

Hi Ben,

Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au> skribis:

> So I think the bug is that the user interface could be more helpful here.
> It should probably either tell you what happened and what you can do to
> fix it, or offer to resolve the conflict/perform the upgrade for you.

Would it be desirable or even feasible to resolve the conflict for you?
I wouldn’t want the tool to remove installed packages without asking me,
for instance.

Could you suggest messages you’d like to see in this case?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-11 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-11  0:14 bug#29255: "Profile contains conflicting entries" could be more helpful Ben Sturmfels
2017-11-11 13:59 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-11-24 18:35   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-11-30 12:13     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-10 22:47       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-10 22:53         ` Ben Sturmfels

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