On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 03:41:44PM -0400, Carl Meyer wrote: > > Also note that a package manager should be able to tell required status from > > what is currently installed. So it might make more semantic sense to record > > what was requested by the user to be installed instead of what was required > > by a package. (When something is both required by a package and requested > > by a user, the user request is what takes precedence.) > > Clearly my terminology choice was poor. REQUIRED in my proposal meant > "requested by name by a user" (which has to be recorded at install > time), not "required as a dependency by other installed packages" > (which, as you say, can be calculated at runtime). Would REQUESTED, or > AUTO_INSTALLED (with the sense flipped) be better options? > I would say REQUESTED due to my arguments for not recording installed-as-package-dependency.
-Toshio
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