Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:07:26 +0200 From: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@EUnet.yu> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keeping track of automatically installed dependency-only ports Message-ID: <200706150007.l5F07QC6016658@smtpclu-3.eunet.yu> In-Reply-To: <18033.12033.969102.280191@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20070614070602.GD39533@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200706140714.l5E7EK0U023767@smtpclu-1.eunet.yu> <20070614075418.GA8093@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <18033.12033.969102.280191@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:05:21 -0400 Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote: > [...] > In view of the recent thread (on current@ ??) in which many > people were willing to trade /decreased/ complexity for faster > execution time, I'd say you have a long way to go before this gets > committed. (A carefully considered exposition of what the problem > is, why it's a problem for many people, and how a proposed solution > might work, submitted here, would be a good start.) I'd say it's actually very simple, and that could sometimes be convenient. For example, pkgtools.conf offers the HOLD_PKGS array and possibility to manually put +IGNOREME in the package directory. In this case, it would be sufficient to add something like +NEVERDEINSTALL to the directory or NEVER_DEINSTALL array to the pkgtools.conf, while portinstall could (optionally) mark with +NEVERDEINSTALL file all ports that are manually (=3D as an argument) passed to it. Those pakages would behave normally (they would be normally upgraded, etc.), they would just always be (silently) included in -x list of pkg_deinstall. I don't think it has much to do with the execution speed. Of course, if something like that doesn't already exist. Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87
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