>>>>> "SB" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SB> On Thursday 16 September 1999, at 2 h 3, the keyboard of Laurent SB> Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> very nice, but how will uninstallation be handled ? Will you be >> able to uninstall all the packages of a metapackage in one step ? SB> Certainly not: SB> - a package can be a member of several meta-packages, We could state that the default is not to remove a package as long as it belongs to a metapackage. SB> - a package could have been installed before (and independently SB> of) a metapackage which includes it). That could be tracked during the installation of the metapackage. It would know what packages were already installed before. Then when you want to remove the metapackage, you could say "only remove packages that were installed by the metapackage" or "remove all packages, regardless of when they were installed". -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]