Danek Duvall wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:41:40PM -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote: > >> You're both right. Both incorporating and group packages should have >> optional dependencies, but group packages should have a package tag >> that says, "for install, include optional dependencies", so that users >> (and GUIs) don't need to remember some variable flag. Perhaps >> pkg.policy.install_optional? > > Do we want a control that's low-level like that, or a tag that simply says > that the package is a group package, and let the packaging system figure > out what that means? > > Danek
<catching up on email after a week away> I don't agree with the idea that one should be able to uninstall part of a group package w/o a force flag, because this would make group packages useless for dependency specification. If I have a group package called "complete_desktop" installed, if I attempt to uninstall a gnome component I expect an error message. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
