I second this idea. It is something I have been missing since
first starting to use pkg_*.


On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:55:12AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:33:22AM +0200, Karl Sjvdahl - dunceor wrote:
> > On 8/30/07, Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On 30/08/2007, Jona Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > You can find it here:
> > > > http://hcl-club.lu/svn/development/python/cutleaves
> > >
> > > This is useful! Why not write a port?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Best Regards
> > >
> > > Edd
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------
> > > http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > Why not extend pkg with this insteed? Sounds like something people
> > woudl have intrest in. Maybe espie@ already has something similar in
> > mind?
> 
> This has been broached several times. If you look at packages in 4.2,
> you'll notice the stuff that has been explicitly installed by users is
> tagged with @option manual-installation
> 
> The aim is to be able to say `okay, wipe out everything not manual-installed
> that's no longer needed as a dependency'.
> 
> I still need to check how this works in real usage, but that was the point.

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/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB

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