On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:47:11PM +1300, Glynn Foster wrote:

> On 17/10/2008, at 1:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > The cluster packages are a convenience mechanism for installing a
> > group of packages but once installed, the packages are typically
> > manipulated individually.  As a result, for example, if you uninstall
> > "amp-dev" from the system, the actual packages that make up the cluster
> > are  *not* uninstalled although the definition of "amp-dev" is removed.
> 
> That sounds somewhat inconvenient - was there any particularly  
> rationale for that decision?

There hasn't been time to design and implement a mechanism for a real
cluster.  These group packages are merely normal dependencies, and a normal
dependency shouldn't behave in the way you suggest.

Danek
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