[sbopkg-users] Installed packages and queue files

[Mauro Giachero]

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Pierre Cazenave <pwcazenave at gmail.com>wrote:

> Mauro Giachero wrote:
>
>> [snip]
>>
>> The issue here is that you may want to build a package you have already
>> installed.
>>
>> Actually, we have a half-working patch that, in the queue view, instead of
>> "Found" shows whether a package with the same name is installed, and if so
>> which version is installed. You still have to deselect things manually,
>> but
>> at least you have a handy reference.
>>
>> Do you think this would be enough to address the issue?
>>
>
> At the moment, the way I use queue files with sbopkg is as follows:
>
> sbopkg -i somequeue.sqf
>
> Therefore, there's little interaction between me and sbopkg other than the
> occasional "y" or "q" etc. I think that were I to use it from the
> dialog-based menu system, having the option to remove packages from a queue
> file that were already installed on my system would help.
>
> There's a certain amount of overlap between different programs which all
> fill a similar niche, so rebuilding those overlapping dependencies was
> increasing my build times needlessly. Having to manually remove them from
> the queue files was difficult (or at least slow), so some option somewhere
> to disable building those particular dependencies would be nice.
>
>
> Pierre
>

Point taken. I'll think about this.
Thank you.

-- 
Mauro Giachero
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