Don't worry too much about this one, Trac#24107
<https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/24107> is under way (slowly, I know...
There is a ton of docs to understand and update...).
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Emmanuel Charpentier
Le lundi 4 décembre 2017 16:13:26 UTC+1, Thierry (sage-googlesucks@xxx) a
écrit :
>
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 03:58:03PM +0100, Erik Bray wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdem...@cage.ugent.be
> <javascript:>> wrote:
> > > On 2017-12-04 15:37, Thierry wrote:
> > >>
> > >> No, we have to be able to remove all the old stuff from the package.
> > >
> > >
> > > You said "rebuilds the package and its dependencies" but you really
> mean
> > > "uninstalls the package and its dependencies" (possibly followed by a
> > > rebuild which is just a normal build at that point)?
> > >
> > > As Erik said, uninstalling is currently not supported but we have a
> fix
> > > coming for that. But I'm a bit puzzled why you would want to uninstall
> a
> > > package *and its dependencies*.
> >
> > That could be useful in some very limited cases involving optional
> > packages that depend on other optional packages. Some distros for
> > example will offer to uninstall packages that were only installed as
> > dependencies of a package that has since been uninstalled. But for
> > Sage's case I agree it's a niche use-case and not one I'm concerned
> > about...
> >
> > Maybe Thierry meant "a package and its dependents"? That would make
> > more sense. There's currently no functionality to do that either, and
> > it *might* be useful for some incremental re-build cases.
>
> What i have in mind is openssl (that i try to keep up-to-date at each rc
> release). If openssl package is installed, you have to recompile python2
> whose compilation depends on the existence of openssl. So, if you remove
> openssl after pushing the ticket, you have to recompile python 2 so that
> is relies on the system's openssl. I am not sure about the vocabulary,
> perhaps python is a "dependent" of openssl spkg, not a "dependency", or
> perhaps it is a "dependency" of some virtual openssl package that will be
> the poset "nothing-available < system-openssl < openssl-spkg", IANAL ("i
> am not a linguist" ;).
>
> Ciao,
> Thierry
>
>
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