* Federico Di Gregorio (Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 10:09:45AM +0200) > Yes. The problem of super-packages is that if you install, say, 20 > normal packages by a single "click", you expect to remove them the > same way... Maybe we need to update dpkg/apt anyway... Couldn't this be solved by putting deinstallation procedures for the installed packages in pre/postrm? (and not necessarily deinstall all, but tell the user which packages was installed, and ask if (s)he wants to deinstall them. An example session.: root@machine > dpkg --purge blah [stuff] Removing blah... By deinstalling 'blah', the following packages will be marked for removal. blah, blah-lib, blah-games, blah-config, tkblah Do you want to keep any of them? [ y / N / ? ] y Keep blah? [ y / N / ? ] n Keep blah-lib? [ y / N / ? ] n Keep blah-games? [ y / N / ? ] y Keep blah-config? [ y / N / ? ] n Keep tkblah? [ y / N / ? ] n Removing: blah, blah-lib, blah-config, tkblah Keeping: blah-games Is this OK? [ Y / n / ? ] removing..... -- SSM - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen Trust the Computer, the Computer is your Friend
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