On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:39:58PM -0500, Doug Leavitt wrote: > In all of the cases I can think of at the moment, the obsoletion > functionality resolves the issues of package management, upgradability > etc., but leaves open only the issue of the "physical removal of bits" > for "certain" obsolete packages.
Agreed. > It seems to me that from an implementation point of view, if you had > a new option say: > > pkgsend obsolete ... > > you could also add a flag for the physical removal of bits aka: > > pkgsend obsolete -r ... > > I think would completely resolve the toxic issue as well as the > obsolete problem. It would, though the obsolete mechanism is unlikely to be "pkgsend obsolete". But a similar subcommand for pkgsend for removing the packages is likely the right answer for toxicity. Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
