Re: "super" pkgs (was Re: Back to RedHat)

[Federico Di Gregorio <fog@pcamb6.irfmn.mnegri.it>]

Hi,

	I think we already have too mauch questions when installing
the packages. Adding user-interaction on purges will make the automatic
install stuff much more difficult. The right way is, IMHO, have dpkg/apt
tag the automatically installed packages and try to purge them when
a package that depends on them is removed from the system. If the purge
fails because other packages depends on them dpkg should not emit
any error but keep going silently.

My 0.02$
Ciao,
federico

On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 10:54:42PM +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
> * 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
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