Danek Duvall wrote: > 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. >
Such a construct will require some careful thought and design regarding user intent. For example, install SUNgcc... now install gcc-dev, which included SUNWgcc. Should uninstall of gcc-dev remove SUNWgcc? Absent a brainstorm on how this should work, we've put off dealing with this :-). - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
