On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Brad Salai wrote:

: What I was trying to get at is the situation were someone wants to
: update to the latest release of something that (s)he previously built in
: the pkg system, builds and installs it in the old way, and then tried to
: delete the prior version from the pkg system using pkg_delete.

Um, then the person should not be using pkg system dependencies against such
a thing.  The most common dependency is a shared library dependency--which
are not always built when done "the old way", or may have a different shlib
version number (or worse yet, be an incompatible release but provide the
*same* shlib version number).

: Deleting dependant pkgs under those circumstances would not be a good
: thing.

This proposal was for an option, not default behavior.

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)