On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Jacob Meuser<jake...@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote: > 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.
This is a good finding. I didn't realize that was there. > 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 ... I took a quick look to the sources and -a seems to do nothing (as well as -q, Am I missing something?). I don't know if you find something different. (I am looking the last version from cvsview) >> > >> 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. That is fine as long as the option exists, I guess. Luis.
