Re: Ignoring dependance on "important" packages?
Martin Bialasinski <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de> writes:
> Someone said on debian-devel, that he expected from a task package,
> that all dependant packages are removed, if he removes the task
> package. Interesting, and he has a point.
True; but this is a general problem. If I install the package frob,
which depends on libfrob, then libfrob should be pulled in. This
currently happens. But then if I remove frob, libfrob should also be
removed. This has nothing to do, per se, with tasks.
This is the basis for my objection to hacking on auto-removal to tasks
-- it's a specific and local solution to something which is a general
problem. Therefore, we're just making work for ourselves w/o really
solving the problem.
> Defining tasks through ordniary packages _is_ a hack.
Yes, but an *elegant* hack.
> It should be left to the frontend, as forming package supersets for
> easier handling is really their task.
I disagree. It *shouldn't* be left to the front end. It should be
left to the backend dependancy system. The front end is just the
interface for managing which tasks/profiles the user selected.
> Therefore I hope we will be
> able to place a package in more than one categorie sometime.
You can do that now, with metapackages. And one metapackage can
depend on another.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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