Ed McKnight wrote: > Suggestion: IPS to implement a package attribute, 'metapackage=true,' > which would mean that the contained dependencies would be treated as > reversed during uninstall, thus enabling the dependencies both to be > automatically installed and uninstalled. Maybe there should be > enforcement that nothing other than dependencies are contained, but I'm > not sure it's necessary. >
We've talked about this; it's probably actually an attribute of the dependency or a different type of dependency rather than an attribute of the containing package. Some of this is waiting on our completion of capturing user intent, for the following reason: pkg install foo pkg install bar, which has a "meta-dependency" on foo pkg uninstall bar should not uninstall foo, whereas in the case of: pkg install bar, which has a "meta-dependency" on foo pkg uninstall bar it should... we cannot do this correctly w/o recording user intent. - 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
