2009/10/8 Carl Meyer <[email protected]>: > -----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.
For backwards compatibility already installed packages have to be treated as manually installed, because it is not known why they were installed. So the presence of a new file or flag has to signify that it was AUTO_INSTALLED, i.e. the other way around than originally suggested. Gediminas _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
