Re: show all Suggests packages not installed

2003-05-14 Thread Brian May
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 06:01:02PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > What if the maintainer of a is slow in responding? and a-beta, > delta, gamma et al have been created by others in his absence? What if the administrator doesn't install the fixed version of a, but goes straight to install

Re: show all Suggests packages not installed

2003-05-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 14 May 2003 12:22:53 -0700, Keegan Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wednesday 14 May 2003 11:05 am, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Wed, 14 May 2003 09:36:57 -0700, Keegan Quinn >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> The only solution I think is if dpkg were to take over >> >> responsibilit

Re: show all Suggests packages not installed

2003-05-14 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Wednesday 14 May 2003 11:05 am, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2003 09:36:57 -0700, Keegan Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> The only solution I think is if dpkg were to take over > >> responsibility for deleting configuration files, so that the postrm > >> script doesn't have to wo

Re: show all Suggests packages not installed

2003-05-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 14 May 2003 09:36:57 -0700, Keegan Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> The only solution I think is if dpkg were to take over >> responsibility for deleting configuration files, so that the postrm >> script doesn't have to worry. > I think that in this situation, package a should check if

Re: show all Suggests packages not installed

2003-05-14 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Tuesday 13 May 2003 07:31 pm, Brian May wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:21:33AM -0700, Keegan Quinn wrote: > > On Monday 12 May 2003 04:40 pm, Brian May wrote: > > > Also, just blindly purging packages can be dangerous, in some cases old > > > packages will purge files used by newer packages

Re: show all Suggests packages not installed

2003-05-13 Thread Brian May
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:21:33AM -0700, Keegan Quinn wrote: > On Monday 12 May 2003 04:40 pm, Brian May wrote: > > Also, just blindly purging packages can be dangerous, in some cases old > > packages will purge files used by newer packages that are still used by > > the system. > > I'm pretty su

Re: show all Suggests packages not installed

2003-05-13 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Monday 12 May 2003 04:40 pm, Brian May wrote: > Also, just blindly purging packages can be dangerous, in some cases old > packages will purge files used by newer packages that are still used by > the system. I'm pretty sure that would be a bug. You should report this behavior if you see it.