On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 19:11, Olivier Blin wrote:
> > No, it doesn't. What Han is asking for is this. Say you installed foo
> > and urpmi pulled in libbar and libmoo as things foo depended on. If you
> > then urpme foo, libbar and libmoo don't get uninstalled. If, however,
> > you urpme'd libbar, foo *would* be uninstalled. That is, urpme
> > uninstalls things that depend on the package you call to be urpme'd, but
> > not things the package you call to be urpme'd depends upon.
> 
> This isn't very safe if you compile and install yourself some packages that need 
> either libbar or libmoo, instead of using urpmi.
> IMHO, there is no correct way to handle that :/

Excellent point.
-- 
adamw


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