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Date:      Mon, 8 May 2000 13:26:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: a better idea for package dependencies
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005081324060.96084-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005081418410.19072-100000@sun20epsl.wam.umd.edu>

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On Mon, 8 May 2000, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:

> pkg_delete -d package-version (or some other unused switch for dependancy)

This might be a good option, but there should also be an automatic mode,
whether or not it's the default.

> remove pkg_version_dependant [Y] ? y
> removed!
> remove pkg_version_dependant2 [Y] ? y
> 
> error: some_other_package depends on pkg_version_dependant2!

pkg_version_dependant2 is required by the following packages:
foo-1.0
bar-2.0a
blee-0.00000001
remove pkg_version_dependant2 [Y] ? y

Kris

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