Hi Jaromil,

Right now the only thing I can think of is a separate repository for
those packages.

Cheers,

Aitor.

On 02/12/15 12:08, Jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:
> Are there alternatives for preventing packages to be installed?
>
> We need to decide if to incorporate this change also into Devuan.
>
> Many people will be negatively affected by yet another limitation of
> their freedom, being now unable to choose if a certain package should be
> installed on their system.
>
> I am wondering what is Debian's rationale to do something like that?
> anyone has more insights?
>
> We are not affected: Devuan has never relied on pinning to protect our
> freedom from the systemd avalanche, but some people do and this move
> looks like the DD's left in the Debian project want to shovel their
> decisions down the throat of all users.
>
> ciao