-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gediminas Paulauskas wrote: > Debian's Apt has this capability, see > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackageDependencyManagement . It keeps a > separate file to track the manually installed packages, and the flag > is named "Auto-Installed". REQUIRED is an ambiguous name -- is it > required by other packages, or wanted by user for any reason (and that > is the case)?
I agree that the name is not ideal. Perhaps naming the file AUTO_INSTALLED, and flipping the semantics (so the presence of the file allows it to be considered orphaned) would be better. Carl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFKzj7nFRcxmeyPUXIRAg+UAJkB51TXE/gKEOcsIhC7ID6/EhZbZACfcNS2 ZT7zcYCyy6VLy2qyxr6o+Ys= =q2mH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
