[indiana-discuss] [pkg-discuss] pkg won't install older versions of packages

[Shawn Walker]

Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 03:48:25PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
> 
>>> Perhaps, but it does match the way dependencies work.  It makes a lot of
>>> sense to me -- "install a 1.0 product, but if it's been patched up to ..4,
>>> then install that".  Like "pkg install python at 2.4" gives you python at 2.4.4.
>>> Why not?  We've talked about version syntax that would force an exact
>>> match, but in this case, it could simply be a flag to pkg install.
>> That would be fine too.  Perhaps the exact match case is to start with 
>> pkg:/ instead of adding a flag?
> 
> That doesn't feel right to me, but if you can provide arguments for that,
> I'd be happy to consider them.

If I may ask, what do you feel is the issue with pkg:/ ?

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Shawn Walker