Shawn Walker wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Michal Pryc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> I believe that installing some of the packages requires reboot action. >> Is it possible to get such information? If yes where is it stored >> manifest/other place? >> > > I don't believe we store this information yet. I think it was > discussed in one of the "Tags and Attributes" threads. This one: > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2008-April/002523.html > What's the point of implementing new namespace, when we could easily use dependency action to provide virtual packages? Like, mutt requires mta mta is virtual package provided by sendmail or postfix or exim It's not a package manager business anyway since it's absolutely possible to have more than one alternative installed at once and application should have a way to distinguish alternatives.
and failing when you have more than alternative is definitely a bad thing (tm). Are we really have to imitate Buridan's ass? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass) _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
