On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 09:04:53AM -0400, Luis Useche wrote:
> 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)
find /var/db/pkg -name \+CONTENTS -exec grep manual-installation {} /dev/null \;
> >> > >> 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.
>
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