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