Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 18:50, Steve Fox wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:24, Han Boetes wrote: > > > Feature request: when you install a package you often need other > > > packages to be installed as well. Could you make a list of those > > > dependant extra installed packages? So if peope uninstall the > > > first package you can also deinstall the packages it depended on. > > > Of course only if no other packages depend on them. > > > > urpme already does this > > No, it doesn't. What Han is asking for is this. Say you installed foo > and urpmi pulled in libbar and libmoo as things foo depended on. If > you then urpme foo, libbar and libmoo don't get uninstalled. If, > however, you urpme'd libbar, foo *would* be uninstalled. That is, > urpme uninstalls things that depend on the package you call to be > urpme'd, but not things the package you call to be urpme'd depends > upon. Clear? Probably not. Remind me not to become a teacher. :)
I couldn't have said it better :-) # Han -- http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
