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[Michael Hirsch]

On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 16:08, Joseph A. Knapka wrote:
> Charles Marcus wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Joseph A. Knapka
> > > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 3:42 PM
> > >
> > >> Can't wait for the full reverse-dependancy checking
> > >> (uninstall something, it uninstalls all packages that
> > >> it is dependant on that are not also dependancies for
> > >> other programs)!
> > 
> > > Why the qualifier? Surely it should recursively remove
> > > everything directly or indirectly dependent on the
> > > package in question?
> > 
> > Either I am misunderstanding your question, or you mis-read what I said.
> > 
> > Yes, it would be brain-dead simple to simply uninstall all dependancies,
> > since the list is in the ebuild.
> > 
> > It is quite another thing, however, to check each dependancy before
> > uninstalling it to see if any other packages that you have installed (either
> > before or after the package you are uninstalling) also depend on it -
> > otherwise, you just broke that package.
> > 
> > Better?
> > 
> > Charles
> 
> If package A depends on package B, which depends on package
> C, then if you remove C, both A and B are broken. It seems
> to me that both should be removed. But you seem to be saying
> that the dependency-checking should only look one level
> deep, so to speak. Why?

I don't think that is what he is describing.  If A depends on B and C,
and nothing else needs B, but D need C, too, then A and B will be
removed, but not C.

--michael


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