On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 03:28:51PM -0700, UNIX admin wrote:

> What about specifying "default" suproducts/subsystems "marked for 
> installation"?
> 
> Will there be either the ability to specify subproduct/subsystem
> installation order, or will the packaging system be intelligent enough to
> automatically "mark for install" all products that product(s) chosen for
> installation depend on?

I'm not quite sure what you're asking.  In particular, I don't understand
what you mean by "subproduct" or "subsystem"; we just have packages.  If
you're asking whether all required dependencies for any explicitly
requested packages will be installed, then yes, they will.

That is, if, say, "application/cat" depends on "library/libc", and
"library/libc" is not installed, then when you attempt to install
"application/cat", the system will see that dependency, retrieve and
install "library/libc" first, and refuse to install "application/cat" if
"library/libc" failed to install.

Danek

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