On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 09:36:27AM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Danek Duvall wrote: > >Behavior > >-------- > > > >In the simple case, where a package is obsoleted without an associated > >rename, and nothing on the system depends on it, the package will be > >uninstalled on upgrade, and on initial install will emit a message, but not > >fail the installation. > > Why shouldn't it fail the installation ?
Because unlike, say, a missing package, or a broken package, we know exactly what the end state of installing an obsolete package should be, so there's no reason to annoy the user by failing the installation, especially if it was only one of many requested packages, or part of an image-update. Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
