On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:19:32 +1000 "Sam Jorna (wraeth)" <wra...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 12/07/17 15:14, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > Is it in system? > > Is it in a set? > > Is it in world? > > If no to all, its a dep, warn! > > All this says is whether the package was explicitly installed and > recorded in world, or is a member of @system. The target package may > or may not be a dependency, may or may not have been --oneshot'd. Then when the user sees the warning they can discard knowing they merged the package with --oneshot. What harm does a warning do? > It may have been installed as a dependency but the requiring package > was removed, Then the person failed to run --depclean and maintain their system. Either way, did the person install the package directly? If the package was not installed by the user. Should they not be warned about removing something they did not install? > or may have been installed as an orphan but is now a > dependency. Now being a dependency the warning would be valid. >Assuming that if it's not in a set it must be a dependency is >incorrect and misleading. Again there are various ways. There cannot be that much overhead to check if a single package depends on one being removed. If you cannot use simpler methods as mentioned. Clearly people have objections to warnings about packages users did not install themselves.... -- William L. Thomson Jr.
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