Re: wwwoffle loading Newbie #61
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 09:02:07PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 07:56:19PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 04:45:12PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
> > > And why can't we uninstall it without also uninstalling
> > > task-dialup (via apt-get remove)? Does anyone have any
> > > advice on this?
> >
> > The dialup task includes wwwoffle, and therefore task-dialup depends on
> > it. Removing the task-dialup package is harmless. The confusion you're
> > experiencing here is one of the reasons why, in woody, tasks are no
> > longer managed with packages and dependencies in this way.
>
> But task-dialup contains ppp, fetchmail, anacron.... I was afraid
> that un-installing task-dialup would also uninstall those.
>
> But I was misunderstanding the dependencies, I guess.
> task-dialup depends on them, not the other way around.
>
> Still, shouldn't uninstalling task-dialup also uninstall them?
> Imagine uninstalling task-dialup, hoping to do the inverse
> of install task-dialup.
Exactly, this was the other main problem with task packages, in that
people expected them to work that way when they don't.
These days 'tasksel install dialup' will install everything in the
dialup task. 'tasksel remove dialup' arguably should be implemented, but
doesn't seem to be at the moment. I'm filing a wishlist bug for that
now.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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