On Nov 21, 2008, at 5:25 PM, John Plocher wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Jonathan Edwards > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> (c) uninstall the stuff from the metacluster including the pre- >> existing stuff and all their dependencies > > > What is the use-case for this? Why would I ever want to do this > action? > Since <anything> ends up depending on core stuff like, say, libc, > wouldn't > pkg uninstall -r <anything> > end up removing my entire system?
not necessarily .. unless i'm mistaken i don't think that pkg dependencies are so interlinked as to follow all the way down to the core os or core libraries > Without a better understanding of situations where "c" is a useful > choice, > I'd steer well clear of doing it that way. It violates the > principle of > least surprise. the idea is to essentially wipe large sections of an install easily .. however least surprise is also warranted, hence warnings on all components being removed or perhaps a "force" option would be required. --- .je _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
