On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 01:33:41PM -0700, Brock Pytlik wrote: > To try and phrase things another way, all user intent is trying to track > is "do I want this package on my system even if it's not fulfilling any > dependencies." By far, the most common and significant indication of > this is whether the user typed "pkg install foo" or not. I would claim > this covers the vast majority of users, and haven't heard any claims to > the contrary. I don't believe that failure to perfectly induce a user's > desire means we should just punt on the question, especially since we've > had numerous complaints about this issue. That's why the proposal also > includes tools to allow the occasional user for whom we make the wrong > guess to rectify our mistake.
So now users need to worry about the system uninstalling pkgs that the users might have wanted? The tradeoff seems to be be: don't save space (and annoy users) or save space (and annoy users more). Yes, users might be less annoyed this way, but, I doubt it. If it doesn't work out you can always turn this off. Nico -- _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
