On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:50:51PM -0500, Vince Mulhollon wrote: > Oh, I don't know if it's an ugly hack. Think about it, theres one program > or system that handles conflicts and dependencies. Why not rely on it? > Making multiple programs to do the same function (installing and removing > packages) is probably not the prettiest method. > > As far as "generally agreed best idea" goes, I put it in quotes for a > reason. As with all things Debian there is no way to make everyone happy.
A cleaner implementation would be to create a simple program or script that would attempt to remove a given package and (recursively) all of its dependencies, skipping any that are depended upon by packages outside of the set of packages being manipulated. So if you had installed task-x-window-system-core, then later installed xterm (which depends on xlibs), you could run this hypothetical program on task-x-window-system-core, and remove all of the pieces of task-x-window-system-core that were not needed by other packages. This would make a good python-apt script. -- - mdz
