Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:11:25 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@EUnet.yu> Cc: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keeping track of automatically installed dependency-only ports Message-ID: <20070615121125.GH1173@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200706142322.l5ENMbZt009741@smtpclu-6.eunet.yu> References: <20070614070602.GD39533@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200706140714.l5E7EK0U023767@smtpclu-1.eunet.yu> <20070614075418.GA8093@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200706142322.l5ENMbZt009741@smtpclu-6.eunet.yu>
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--NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2007-Jun-15 01:22:38 +0200, Nikola Lecic <nlecic@EUnet.yu> wrote: >Yes, now I see what you want. For example, you want xmms, portupgrade >installs xmms+x1,x2... Then you install mplayer+y1,y2... with an option >that links xmms as its dependency; then you want 'pkg_deinstall mplayer' >to leave xmms intact. You also want to handle build dependencies which are not required once the port has been installed. >At the first place, I think such a situation occurs extremly rare.=20 For an opposing PoV: I often see ports that looks interesting or look like a possible solution to a problem and will install the port to have a play. If it turns out that it's not suitable, I would like to be able to easily unistall the port and any dependencies it pulled in that I didn't already have. Currently, this is a fairly delicate operation and I usually base it on timestamps within /var/db/pkg. --=20 Peter Jeremy --NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGcoHt/opHv/APuIcRAld9AJ9OC2KeYlUuV0P/o5Aqo5YF7e9RuACgr1Pc M7vL0W5IsRlDT3r8Zm0EcVE= =g7Zl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU--
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