On Jun 17, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Lubos Kosco wrote:
Hi guys
I got a good question asked on a presentation of OpenSolaris, namely:
If you uninstall a package using IPS pkg command, will also its
dependencies, that it installed, be uninstalled , when they are no
longer used by any other packages?
Not currently. It isn't necessarily a behaviour most people would
expect.
You can add yourself to the following bug to track this RFE:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1728
One of the biggest issues with automatically removing dependencies is
ensuring that we can accurately record the intent of the user.
For example, if one administrator installs Apache, and then another
later installs amp-dev, which would normally install Apache, MySQL,
and PHP, if amp-dev is removed, we clearly shouldn't remove Apache.
The good news is that the system already has most of this information,
but we need to design a way to record it first, and then once that
information is recorded somewhere, we need to decide how and where to
use it.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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