UI for backports usage

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:10:06 +0200 Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>Hello everybody,
>
>I had some discussions with John Dong and João Pinto and both
>acknowledged the fact that there's a need for installing just a select
>few backport packages and not all of them.
>
>Let's imagine that somebody has an interest in just the latest version
>of blender on his stable system. That user does not want to upgrade to
>all packages available in the backports repository, but just the
>backported version of blender.
>
>How could something like this be realised in a user-friendly way?
>
I think that between the getdeb web U/I and gdebi there is a very reasonably user friendly approach.  I think from a U/I perspective it's only major lack is around automated dependency management.

Scott K