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[Joseph A. Knapka]

Charles Marcus wrote:
> 
> > From: Joseph A. Knapka
> > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 3:42 PM
> >
> >> Can't wait for the full reverse-dependancy checking
> >> (uninstall something, it uninstalls all packages that
> >> it is dependant on that are not also dependancies for
> >> other programs)!
> 
> > Why the qualifier? Surely it should recursively remove
> > everything directly or indirectly dependent on the
> > package in question?
> 
> Either I am misunderstanding your question, or you mis-read what I said.
> 
> Yes, it would be brain-dead simple to simply uninstall all dependancies,
> since the list is in the ebuild.
> 
> It is quite another thing, however, to check each dependancy before
> uninstalling it to see if any other packages that you have installed (either
> before or after the package you are uninstalling) also depend on it -
> otherwise, you just broke that package.
> 
> Better?
> 
> Charles

If package A depends on package B, which depends on package
C, then if you remove C, both A and B are broken. It seems
to me that both should be removed. But you seem to be saying
that the dependency-checking should only look one level
deep, so to speak. Why?

Cheers,

-- Joe
  "I'd rather chew my leg off than maintain Java code, which
   sucks, 'cause I have a lot of Java code to maintain and
   the leg surgery is starting to get expensive." - Me

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