some further thoughts ...
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 01:32:07AM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 06:58:48PM -0400, Luis Useche wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Stephen Takacs<perl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Luis Useche wrote:
> > >> It seems like an additional information should be added to the package
> > >> database. A bit indicating if the package was installed manually by
> > >> the user (admin?) or not.
this presumably already happens. from pkg_add(1):
-a Automated pakages installations; do not record packages as in-
stalled manually.
it might be useful if:
1) pkg_info could display what packages were manually installed
(pkg_info -m ?)
2) `pkg_add foo-1.0' when foo-1.0 is already installed as a dependency
of some other package, would mark foo-1.0 as manually installed
3) pkg_info could display packages that aren't required by any other
packages and aren't manually installed (pkg_info -t -m ?)
I guess I should now go look at the sources and see what exactly
`pkg_add -a' does ...
> > >> Then, the package can only be deleted if the
> > >> the user explicitly say so as oppose to "automatic deletion as
> > >> dependency".
*maybe* an option for pkg_delete to stop it from deleting packages
that are marked as manually installed would be useful, but it shouldn't
be default behaviour, imo.
--
jake...@sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
