From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 8 13:26: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9117C37BC45; Mon, 8 May 2000 13:26:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA01780; Mon, 8 May 2000 13:26:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 13:26:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Kenneth Wayne Culver Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a better idea for package dependencies In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message