[lsb-discuss] [Webdevel] Key for signing downloadable printer driver packages

[Wichmann, Mats D]

Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:17:45AM +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote:
>> For manual install the user can choose. But I recommend the
>> driver-specific one to suppress unwished updates.
>
> Maybe I don't understand, but if you use the combined repository, it
> doesn't follow that you must install all of the packages in the
> combined repository; so I'm not sure why the only way to suppressed
> undesired updates is to use a driver-specific repository?

both apt and yum have ways to restrict what does get installed,
but really, a third-party repository should *not* be providing
packages that have the same name as ones being provided by the
distro.