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From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: a better idea for package dependencies
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Alright, I'll try to do it after I get something working.


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On Mon, 8 May 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> 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
> 
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