On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Bart Smaalders wrote:
Robert Milkowski wrote:
So for example if I want to uninstall a package A I won't end-up with
another 20 packages being installed automatically. I know one can check
dependencies in advance but still...
How would this happen? We don't support require dependencies that
offer a choice; thus uninstall cannot cause other packages to be
installed.
If you install a package, we automatically install its dependencies.
To do otherwise is madness.
Sorry, a type - I meant that if a user tries to uninstall package A it
should fail by default if there are other packages which needs to be
uninstalled as they depend on A. If all of these packages are provided to
pkg uninstall and there are no other packages which will need to be
uninstalled due to dependencies then it should proceed.
So lets say there are three packages: A, B and C where B and C depend on A.
# pkg uninstall A
Package A is required for packages: B, C
Please provide --with-dependencies option to uninstall those packages as
well.
# pkg uninstall --with-dependencies A
uninstalling A, B, C
or there should be an option to force an uninstall without deps (like with
rpm):
# pkg uninstall --no-deps A
uninstalling A
WARNING packages: B, C depend on A and are not being uninstalled
pkg fix should be able to fix such a case later on if run.
If user would specify all three packages (in whatever order) then it
should just work:
# pkg uninstall A B C
uninstalling A, B, C
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Robert Milkowski
http://milek.blogspot.com
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