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To: kosmos <kosmos@bowhill.yi.org>
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Subject: Re: PortsNG (was Re: Ports Options Paper)
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From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami)
Date: 10 Sep 2000 01:30:24 -0700
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 * From: kosmos <kosmos@bowhill.yi.org>

 * How about an extended deinstall target (like: deinstall tree) that
 * deletes orphaned dependencies of a port? 
 * 
 * Suppose FOO has dependencies BAR_1, BAR_2 and BAR_3. Another installed
 * package, FOO_2 depends on BAR_2 and BAR_4. 
 * 
 * If I run this extended deinstall target on FOO, BAR_1 and BAR_3 get
 * deinstalled too, becuase nothing else depends on them. BAR_2 gets
 * left alone.

Actually I added a "deinstall-depends" target that can be converted to
do exactly this if we take out the -f flag of pkg_delete.

But I'm not sure if this is the right thing to do for ordinary users.
(I added it just for quick testing -- it's not even documented.)  The
problem here is that we don't know whether the user wants BAR_1 to be
deleted or not.  Maybe the user is using something in BAR_1 and didn't
realize typing "make deinstall-depends" from FOO would delete it.

Or something like that.

Satoshi


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