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

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Bart Smaalders                  Solaris Kernel Performance
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