Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 16:10:36 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: kosmos <kosmos@bowhill.yi.org>, Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PortsNG (was Re: Ports Options Paper) Message-ID: <20000910161036.A79024@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <vqclmx0tzrz.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from asami@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 01:30:24AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009091947520.95810-100000@bowhill.yi.org> <vqclmx0tzrz.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Sun 2000-09-10 (01:30), Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > 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. When installing a port/package directly, touch /var/db/pkg/foo-1.0/direct, if not, don't touch it. Well, a better name would be cool, but that should work fine. With a GUI/CUI front-end, this could be handled arbitrarily, and it's easy enough for a person to do manually. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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