From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 10 15:13:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from blount.mail.mindspring.net (blount.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5A8137B422 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:13:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca5-129.ix.netcom.com [209.109.234.129]) by blount.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA12411; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 18:13:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8AMDFk22899; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:13:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami) To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: kosmos , Steve Price , Will Andrews , FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: PortsNG (was Re: Ports Options Paper) References: <20000910161036.A79024@mithrandr.moria.org> <20000910194324.A80015@mithrandr.moria.org> From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 10 Sep 2000 15:13:10 -0700 In-Reply-To: Neil Blakey-Milner's message of "Sun, 10 Sep 2000 19:43:24 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 11 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Neil Blakey-Milner * You cut off my other paragraph, which maybe didn't make sense. The user * can change the 'direct' or "keep me even if everything that depends on * me disappears" flag to on or off either manually, or through some * CUI/GUI tool (still to be written). Yes, that could work. This, plus deinstall-depends asking for confirmation from users first, ought to be enough protection. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message