Shawn Walker wrote: > jan damborsky wrote: >> On the other hand, if you provide a way to do it using standard >> tools, you have control over how it will be done. And when user starts >> to scream, you have records about where/what/how and you can >> start asking why. > > Since the user can edit those records too, and we can't force them to > provide them, there is no way to prove what they did or did not do. > > Again, our time is currently better invested on supportable > configurations. As time progresses, there will likely be more tools > to help individuals wanted to deconstruct and reconstruct packages; > but those will likely be integrated into the publishing process and > not the package management process. > > The most important thing you can take from all of this is that you are > welcome to file RFEs, etc. and we'll do the best we can to address > your concerns. But understand that our focus is on a particular > target audience.
Understood :-) I have filed following RFE to capture the outcome of this conversation: 6484 RFE: pkg(1M) should allow to install/uninstall package without checking dependencies Thank you, Jan _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
