From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 10 7:10:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4807237B423; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 07:10:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13Y7oa-000KYs-00; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 16:10:36 +0200 Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 16:10:36 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: kosmos , Steve Price , Will Andrews , FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: PortsNG (was Re: Ports Options Paper) Message-ID: <20000910161036.A79024@mithrandr.moria.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from asami@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 01:30:24AM -0700 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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