On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:11:39 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
AM> On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 18:29 +0200, Robert Cernansky wrote: AM> > AM> > Hmm, it can be done with "garbage collector principe". Each AM> > package will have counter which increases when some package which AM> > depend on AM> > it is installed. Decreased, when the package is uninstalled. If AM> > counter is AM> > zero, "dependency" package can be uninstalled along with package AM> > specified AM> > for uninstalling. AM> AM> No, that still doesn't work. When the user unmerges kde-meta, with your AM> proposal it will unmerge X11. The next step is that the user emerges AM> gnome which first emerges X11 back again. This isn't so bad with a AM> binary distro if the packages are on a CD, but on gentoo it's murder. AM> Yes, you are right. I did not consider this practical issue. AM> The only sane thing to do is to emerge dependencies when required and AM> unmerge only thinks specifically asked for to be unmerged. You can't AM> even reliably prompt the user with a dialog that says "The following AM> dependencies of the package about to be unmerged are needed by no other AM> package. Shall they be unmerged?" because of deep dependencies. AM> Reverse constructing a multi-node tree and applying logic to it is no AM> joke, hence the wise decision to have portage ignore this amazingly AM> efficient bug-injecting process. Yes, its not so easy, i see now. ;-) Like Bo Andresen wrote --depclean is the best way. Robert -- Robert Cernansky E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
