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[Joe Bayes]

Charles Marcus typeth:
>> From: Joseph A. Knapka

>>> 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.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding too...

Does this mean that when I uninstall Galeon, it will automatically
uninstall Mozilla for me, since Galeon depends on Mozilla? That would
suck. 

Now, if when doing an install you could specify that "This package is
solely here to support other packages, not to provide user
functionality", I could see how an auto-uninstall of only those
packages could be useful. 

Now, if you meant the reverse...uninstalling Moz would automatically
uninstall Galeon...I guess that would be okay. But it's not that hard
to do that now, anyway...

--joe
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Joe Bayes -- jbayes at spoo.mminternet.com

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