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On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:37:45 +1200 Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> wrote: |
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NR> On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:30:39 +0100 |
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NR> Graham Murray wrote: |
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NR> > Maybe what is needed is an enhancement to portage to allow the removal |
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NR> > of a meta-package to (optionally) also remove the 'real' packages |
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NR> > which it caused to be installed. |
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NR> ummmm think about this. |
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NR> new system, no gui installed. |
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NR> I install kde-meta, which installs xorg-x11 as a dependency. |
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NR> I decide I want gnome, I install gnome which doesn't install xorg, |
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NR> because it is already installed. |
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NR> I decide I do not want kde because i prefer gnome. I unsinstall |
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NR> kde-meta. Under your scheme it would also uninstall xorg-x11. But that |
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NR> is not what you want! |
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Hmm, it can be done with "garbage collector principe". Each |
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package will have counter which increases when some package which depend on |
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it is installed. Decreased, when the package is uninstalled. If counter is |
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zero, "dependency" package can be uninstalled along with package specified |
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for uninstalling. |
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Robert Cernansky |
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