Jonathan Edwards wrote: > On Nov 19, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Bart Smaalders wrote: > >> 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. > > how about something like: > pkg uninstall -r foo
We already have -r. Are you saying it should change somehow, or are you suggesting that's what someone should use? -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
