[indiana-discuss] "no scripting zone" and isaexec(3C) == architectural

Bart Smaalders bart.smaalders at Sun.COM
Tue Jun 16 14:24:47 PDT 2009


Robert Milkowski wrote:
> So for example if I want to uninstall a package A I won't end-up with 
> another 20 packages being installed automatically. I know one can check 
> dependencies in advance but still...
> 

How would this happen?  We don't support require dependencies that
offer a choice; thus uninstall cannot cause other packages to be
installed.

If you install a package, we automatically install its dependencies.
To do otherwise is madness.

- Bart


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