On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 04:13:23PM +0200, Lubos Kosco wrote:
> 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?
As you see, that's not the case. There's a bug open:
1728 group packages should uninstall dependencies on removal
which is at least part of the answer. Other pieces include tagging
packages as "uninteresting" (i.e., their only purpose on the system is to
fulfill dependencies for one or more packages), recording user intent (is a
package on the system because a user specifically asked for it, or because
it was dragged in as a dependency), and whether or not a package is marked
obsolete.
Of those, only package obsoletion is in progress. User intent, IMHO, is
the next most interesting piece to implement.
Danek
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