Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> writes: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 09:58:09AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: >> First, there are large classes of inconsistencies that I think we >> actually do have agreement are unwanted. The we-all-agree-is-bad list >> has things like: >> > [cut] >> >> package A thinks it requires B, but registry of B does not show that A >> depends on it > [cut] > > This is the specific property that the intended "make replace" behavior > violates. Sorry, what I meant was the dangling dependency reference where a package that isn't installed is listed in +REQUIRED_BY. That causes pkg_delete to fail, and pkg_admin rebuild-tree fixes it. The fact that libgtop has osabi-NetBSD-5.1_RC3 under requires is not a problem if RC4 is installed and RC4 thinks it is required by libgtop. I meant my case above to be about dangling pointers that cause pkg_delete to fail.
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